First Lady’s Pet Project Lifts Benue Women Entrepreneurs

First woman of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Initiative has empowered 500 women entrepreneurs successful Benue State with concern tools aimed astatine boosting their economical activities and improving their livelihoods.”

The programme held astatine the concern layout successful Makurdi was organised by the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President connected Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) successful collaboration with the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) arsenic portion of a simultaneous empowerment workout crossed the North Central Zone.
Sen. Tinubu’s code which was delivered by the authorities coordinator of the RHI, Scholastica Ben-Sor, said the inaugural was expected to scope retired to 18,500 women crossed each the six geopolitical zones, with the North Central portion being the archetypal beneficiary.

According to her, the programme is successful enactment with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu which places accent connected inclusivity and sustainable economical growth.

The archetypal woman explained that what was fixed to the beneficiaries would service arsenic tools for them to turn their businesses, lend to the nation’s prosperity, and make a much unafraid aboriginal for their families.
In her remarks, Ben-Sor said, “Benue was fortunate to payment from 2 streams of intervention, totaling 1,000—500 from the RHI and Tony Elumelu Foundation women empowerment programme, and different 500 from the RHI and SDGs initiative. The archetypal lady’s extremity is to trim poorness and fortify micro, tiny and mean enterprises (MSMEs) that look pugnacious marketplace contention to guarantee sustainability, and a follow-up operation has been enactment successful spot to show advancement and adjacent supply recapitalization enactment for those consenting to grow their businesses.

Earlier, Benue State commissioner for women affairs, Teresa Ikwe, expressed appreciation to the archetypal woman whom she described arsenic the “Mother of the Nation,” for her continuous enactment for women successful the state, recalling her erstwhile interventions during disasters.

She urged the beneficiaries not to merchantability the items fixed to them, but to enactment them to meaningful usage for the economical stableness of their families, noting that household empowerment brings information and bid to nine astatine large.

The commissioner besides utilized the juncture to mobilise women up of the 2027 elections, encouraging them and their household members to get their Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVCs) successful mentation for erstwhile the request arises.

She commended Governor Hyacinth Alia for his inclusive governance and assured that Benue women would stay solidly down the governor’s medication and proceed to springiness their enactment arsenic the authorities moves toward the adjacent elections.