Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, on Thursday, unveiled the National Community Food Bank Programme for the South-East geopolitical zone and inaugurated the Tertiary Education Trust Fund-sponsored ICT Experience Centre at the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State.
She also flagged off the statewide empowerment programme of the wife of the Anambra State Governor, Dr Nonye Soludo, with 5,000 beneficiaries across the state’s 21 local government areas receiving business grants, vocational tools and equipment for agriculture and agro-processing, beauty care and small-scale enterprises.
Inaugurating the facilities in the company of Governor Chukwuma Soludo, his wife, Nonye, and other dignitaries on Thursday, Tinubu described the ICT centre as a major investment in the digital future of Nigerian youths.
She also described the food bank as a major milestone in the Federal Government’s nationwide food security and social welfare drive.
According to her, the South-East zonal food bank initiative was structured to cushion vulnerable groups against economic hardship by directly targeting widows, the elderly, persons with disabilities, nursing mothers and young children with essential food assistance and nutrition education.
