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  • Obiano’s aide rallies youths

    Obiano’s aide rallies youths

    It is clear that Anambra State Governor Mr Willie Obiano wants youths in the state to play a major role in peacemaking. The governor’s Senior Special Assistant on Youth Mobilisation, Comrade Chinedu Obidigwe has been meeting with youth groups and student unions in the state, urging them to be good ambassadors of the state by promoting peace and refraining from crime and violence.

    Obidigwe met with a wide range of the state youths including members of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, Anambra State branch, and Anambra Youths Assembly shortly after being appointed by Obiano.

    He wants a stop to the numerous fights and destruction going on in parts of the state especially parks at Obosi, Onitsha and environs, and exhibit characters that will attract investors rather than scare them away.

    Obidigwe, a former council chairman and students’ union activist, advised youths and students to stay away from frivolities and desist from crime by engaging in genuine undertakings in the interest of the state.

    He urged the youths to desist from social vices which, he pointed out, they are developing an escapist appetite for, adding that they should be agents of peace and unity rather than destabilisation.

    Obidigwe said: “Our youths should engage in attitudinal advocacy and help us turn around the rush to crime and all kinds of social vices that it appears our youths are eager learning. They should be peace advocates and shun being used to destabilize the system especially now that Governor Willie Obiano is stepping on the strong foundation  laid by former Governor, Mr Peter Obi.

    “And youth empowerment is dear to the new administration of Governor Obiano to continue from where Obi stopped and what he needed to excel for the benefits of the youths is the peace initiatives of the youths and not war and violence posture  many have tried to paint our youths to be.

    “If there is peace, our youths would be the first to get the dividends of democracy and that would help in stabilizing the polity.”

  • Save Nigeria, cleric appeals to delegates

    Save Nigeria, cleric appeals to delegates

    Anglican Bishop of Abakaliki Diocese Ebonyi State, Bishop Monday Nkwoagu has urged delegates to the National Conference to be ready to make some sacrifices in order to save the country or risk its unity in the nearest future.

    Bishop Nkwoagu, who spoke in Nnewi while addressing journalists, warned the delegates to the national conference to be committed and patriotic.

    He said: “We have been suffering from social and religious injustices in this country. What is happening in this country, particularly in the Northern parts is getting out of control. See how people are being slaughtered everyday in thousands as if they are not human beings.

    “A lot of people are being marginalised. For instance, the South-eastern part of the country is the only region that has five states while others have six. It appears as if there is insecurity in the country but these are caused by fellow Nigerians.

    “There are no employment opportunities, crime rate is high and high cost of living is on the increase, when God has endowed us with abundant human and material resources.

    On those who opposed the convening of the conference, Bishop Nkwoagu said: “Remember I said in the beginning, may God help us so that we may not break up, even though the President has spelt out the modalities and rules including secluded areas that are no go areas that will not, in any way, solve our problems.

    “The country will not stand as one unified nation if nothing is done to address the imbalances in the system.

    “Of course, there is no end in sight to the marginalisation, economic and social injustice as well as religious intolerance among different ethnic groups in Nigeria. What the United States of America speculated about Nigeria’s break-up in 2015 may be inevitable.

    “You know we have a problem of leadership, especially among the Igbo nation. This is the more reason we are marginalised and under-developed. We lack federal infrastructural development in the Southeast zone. For instance, look at the issues of Enugu-Onitsha Expressway and the Second Niger Bridge.

    “Our colonial masters did not consider the interest of these ethnic groups with different cultures and traditions during the 1914 amalgamation exercise. What they did was to lump us together in a way that will benefit them and this has been the bane of our problems.

    “The representatives of the Igbo nation at the conference should know that their nomination was a challenge and therefore should be prepared to defend our common front instead of going there to negotiate for money. Anything contrary to this will perpetuate our continued marginalisation.”

  • Group donates to the physically-challenged

    Latter Day Saints Charity International, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has donated mobility aid materials to persons living with disability in Anambra State.

    The group, which is an arm of United Staes of America-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in partnership with Soroptomist International, Awka chapter, donated 20 wheelchairs, 20 elbow clutches and 20 armpits clutches to members of the Association for Comprehensive Empowerment of Nigerians with Disability (ASCEND).

    Distributing the materials to the people, the President of ASCEND, Chief Cosmas Okoli said the wheelchairs were specially designed to conform to the World Health Organisation (WHO) guideline on appropriate provision in less resource setting.

    He further explained that the wheelchairs have features that would make the beneficiaries easily fitted and convenient, adding that they were designed to be used even in difficult terrains.

    Chief Okoli, who said the event coincided with their launch of an empowerment fund to assist their members, thanked the donors for their benevolence.

    The President of Soroptomist International, Awka chapter, Mrs Patricia Mmaduabom, said they decided to partner ASCEND for welfare purposes, adding that in addition to their various support services, they presented a cheque for N100,000 to ASCEND to assist them in their activities.

    Hope Ngwube, a member of the association, expressed joy that succour came the way of some of them, even as he asked other bodies to emulate the example shown to them by the two groups.

     

  • Rector crisis rages despite Jonathan’s endorsement

    Rector crisis rages despite Jonathan’s endorsement

    Oko in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State used to be a quiet and peaceful community. Not anymore. A sharp knife has severed the cord of unity and peace. The community has fallen apart.

    The awful situation resulted from the squabble between the traditional ruler of the kingdom Igwe (Prof.) Laz Ekwueme and his subjects over one of the members of the community, Prof. Godwin Onu who is the Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko.

    While the monarch and some of his subjects, including the town’s President-General, Ike Nwammuo, are fighting for the removal of the Rector, the youths of the community and some members of the executive of Oko Progressive Union (OPU), are against the professor’s ouster.

    In the circumstances, things are no longer at ease in the community of former Nigerian Vice-President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme who championed the establishment of the institution 22 years ago.

    Some members of the community have been at daggers-drawn with the management of the Polytechnic, which is being spearheaded by Igwe Ekwueme and Ike Nwammuo.

    The situation has sparked several protests from the youths led by Evangelist Hilary Tochukwu Ezeokafor.

    Those who favour his removal say the Rector is not qualified to be the head of the Polytechnic, because he studied Political Science which is not part of the curricula of polytechnics.

    Another complaint is that Onu allegedly instigated all the crises the community has witnessed since his assumption of office as the Rector, even as they further alleged that he induced the youths with money and impersonation of leaders of the community.

    They also maintained that, being the host community, they should know who heads the institution, insisting that the community should be represented in the institution’s governing council.

    They also accused Prof. Onu of harbouring enormous hatred and animosity for the community despite the support he enjoys from the people.

    More worrisome to the community is the alleged clandestine moves by the Rector to relocate the institution to his community, Ezira in Orumba South Local Government Area.

    Before now, the community and the institution had engaged in serious battles over Masquerade Week which resulted in heavy protests within and outside the school.

    During one of the protests on March 26, 2012, some students and youths of the community were injured.

    To ensure that Prof. Onu was removed as Rector of the institution, there have been several petitions to the Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike and to the Presidency.

    However, the snag here is that the community is unaware that, as a result of the transformation of the institution under Onu’s leadership, Prof. Onu’s second four-year tenure had been signed by President Goodluck Jonathan.

    The approval for his second tenure was in October, 2013 before the expiration of his first tenure on March 4, 2014.

    However, the National Legal Adviser of Oko Progressive Union (OPU), Chief Uchenna Okonkwo-Okom had maintained that “renewing his tenure before the expiration of his first is illegal, ultra vires and of no effect.”

    Speaking with reporters in his palace, Igwe Ekwueme said he had continued to receive threat messages from some groups to the effect that if anything goes wrong in Oko community, he would be arrested.

    He said though he had not been arrested by anybody, the harassments and intimidations from certain groups were embarrassing to his person.

    The monarch further said some of the security agencies had not seen him for over a year; he questioned the rationale behind their interest to see him now saying, “I’m afraid of this situation”.

    On whether Dr Alex Ekwueme is aware of the situation in Oko Polytechnic or in support of their agitation for the removal of the Rector, Igwe Ekwueme said the former Vice-President supports Prof. Onu’s removal.

    “Ekwueme is on the same page with the community. You know he is a humble man and he does not really throw his weight around,” he said.

    However, Igwe Ekwueme pleaded that the Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, the Senator representing the zone and the member representing Orumba North and South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives to intervene on the matter.

    The youth leader, Evangelist Ezeokafor told our correspondent that the youth are disappointed in some people’s roles in the crisis.

    He said the Rector has not committed any crime that could warrant anybody to call for his removal, adding that “he had carried the community along since he assumed duty over four years ago.”

    He commended President Jonathan for endorsing the Rector’s second tenure, which, according to him, had made members of the community proud.

    “His massive infrastructural development in the school and the help he has rendered to Oko community, especially the youth, were unprecedented,” he said.

    The Public Relations Officer, Oko Progressive Union (OPU), Nwafor Jeremiah, said members of Oko community are not interested is renewing Prof. Onu’s tenure, but are interested in allowing the man to finish his work in Oko.

    He condemned the call by the traditional ruler and the President-General of OPU for Prof. Onu’s removal, adding that the executive of OPU would not support it.

    He emphasised that the community had not deliberated on Prof. Onu’s removal, saying, the monarch and his cohorts were on their own.

    Mr Sopuluchukwu Onwuka, a lawyer, who is the National Assistant Secretary of OPU, told our correspondent that the monarch’s selective judgment had ruined Oko community.

    Onwuka said Oko community has a constitution that guides it, adding that it stipulates the functions of the monarch and that of the union.

    The public relations officer of the institution, Mr. Obini Onuchukwu, described Prof. Ekwueme as a father figure, the mentor, a role model and the landlord in the community and therefore should allow the Rector to concentrate on the task of developing the institution.

    Noting that “call for his removal is borne out of politics and selfishness,” he added: “it is the idea of those falling angels who do not want the success of Oko community and the institution.”

    Onuchukwu reminded the monarch that the way he had been championing the removal of Prof. Onu may equally boomerang on him because he is the Chairman, National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) Kaduna.

    He said: “I am disappointed in the calibre of people calling for the removal of the Rector. They do not know that the President had renewed his tenure for another four years.”

    On the Rector’s achievements, Onuchukwu said he has improved the academic standard of the institution as well as embarking on massive infrastructural development of the institution.

    Okonkwo-Okom said: “The community has concluded that continued stay of Prof. Onu as Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Oko does not augur well for the Polytechnic, will retard the pace of its development. His continued stay has been rejected by the entire staff, students and the host community. Therefore, his tenure should not be renewed but should be terminated forthwith.

    “All staff unions in the Polytechnic have vowed to continue their strike if Prof. Onu is allowed to return as Rector under whatever guise.

    “On our part, Oko community has resolved to occupy the Polytechnic if Prof. Onu returns and would not vacate the premises until he is removed.

    “He is notorious for engaging in excessive use of police might to enforce his unpopular policies and programmes. We hereby humbly notify the government that Oko community will not be prepared for the return of Prof. Onu unless he is prepared to shoot all of us to clear his way,”

    It was gathered that the bone of contention in the area is award of contracts to individuals.

    “Why should anybody seek for contracts from the institution? Since the Rector’s tenure, he has transformed the institution and anybody that comes in now should identify the area as institution of higher learning and not like a glorified secondary school,” the source said.

    The crisis between the community and the Federal Polytechnic Oko has become upsetting so much so that if the Federal Government, former Vice-President Alex Ekwueme and other stakeholders did not intervene, there may be much turmoil that may destabilise both the community and the institution.

  • NDLEA, medicine dealers tackle hard drugs

    NDLEA, medicine dealers tackle hard drugs

    Two things were on the agenda when patent medicine dealers and personnel of the Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) gathered in Enugu State for a one-day seminar organised by the anti-drug agency. One was how the medicine dealers could improve on their trade for the over-all good of the consumers. The other was the dangers of hard drug and how its use could be controlled.

    Over 1000 dealers from all the local government councils of Enugu State as well chiefs of security agencies were attended the event.

    The Enugu State commander of the NDLEA, Anthony Ohanyere in his welcome address told participants that three topics were to be treated. These include “Patent Medicine Practice, Scope and Limitations” which has been articulated to enlighten patent medicine practitioners on the do’s and don’ts of their profession.

    The second, he said, was “Hard Drug Consumption and Criminal Liability: Issue of drug control” as crucial in the sense that patent medicine are vulnerable to frequent arrests for dispensing psychotropic substances.

    The third topic “Consequences of drug abuse on National Development was carefully selected to sensitise all participants on the need to be conscious of the implications of drug abuse on the nation and its development.

    Ohanyere told the participants at the seminar that the only way patent medicine dealers can earn their well deserved respect among the populace was by sticking to the necessary rules and regulations guiding the practice.

    “There is therefore the need for members to be aware of the implications of being caught with such substances,” he admonished.

    The commander said: “It is my belief that at the end of the seminar, we would all be more enlightened and better prepared to face the challenges occasioned by the unfortunate incidence of drug abuse and trafficking.”

    One revelation made at the seminar was that everybody abuses or consumes hard drug almost on a daily basis. The revelation was made by one of the resource persons at the seminar, Jacob Momodu. According to him, “the man that drinks coffee each morning either at home or in the office is consuming drug; the colanut ritualized and eaten at each celebration at any gathering here in Enugu state is drug consumption; the accomplished banker who settles down with a bottle of beer at the end of the day is consuming drug.”

    Momodu, however, explained that the difference in the categories of drug consumption were that some “took socially acceptable drugs – kolanut, beer etc while others took to pathological drug to prevent diseases while yet others consumed hard drug abused volatile substances.”

    He said that although all these were the norm, the one purpose of the seminar was hard drugs which he described as “the opposite of medicine or orthodox drug. It is just as night is today, as good is to bad; it is the functional street and household names for narcotic drugs psychotropic substance.”

    He said the crescendo of drug consumption is addiction and drug addiction is the physiological and psychological dependence on drug of abuse. Adding that an addict goes to any length to steal, pawn valuables, undergo illegitimate means such as prostitution, begging and telling lies to getting his drug of abuse.

    He expressed fears that there was enough evidence to show, at any rate, a growing and unbroken trend of hard drug consumption and criminality in Enugu state. “It cuts across all social strata. Research report has shown that the adolescents and young adults who are the future and hope of the society constitute a risk for hard drug consumption and subsequent criminality.

    At the seminar, the patent medicine dealers were educated on their limitations. These includeselling products in their original packs, boxes, packets, foils and covers as packed by the manufacturer and he the unit pack sizes that may be sold by vendors are limited to 100s and below for tablets 200ml or less for liquid preparation, vendors shall procure medicine from registered premises, they must not engage in surgical procedures and they shall not run hospitals, maternity and clinics.

    They are also not to engage in administering injections or set up IVF, they must not open or operate branches of their of their licensed shops and shall not advertise drugs for the cure, treatment, prevention of diseases specified in the schedule of the Food and Drug Decree of 1990.

    They shall as well not deal in narcotics and psychotropic substances as these products are drugs classified into cannabinoids-marijuana, depressants-barbitutates and BDZs, dossociative anaesthetics and hallucinogens-mescaline and LSD.

  • Environmental agency chief denies Orji’s endorsement

    Environmental agency chief denies Orji’s endorsement

    The Deputy General Manager, Abia State Environmental Protection Agency, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has denied a media report purporting that he has been endorsed by the state governor, Theodore Orji to run for governor in 2015.

    Ikpeazu, addressing journalists in Aba, the commercial nerve of Abia State described the media report as false, adding that he was yet to declared his intention for the post of the governor.

    According to the ASEPA DGM, “I have not declared interest yet and I don’t need to wait to be chosen before I make my intention known even when I am qualified to do so. PDP is a big party populated by the best brains. The rule in PDP is that you must pass through primaries. No one can just anoint someone just like that.

    “I am still consulting with stakeholders in the party and will wait to hear from them. If it didn’t favour me, I will still continue with the ASEPA job. But for now, I am on the ASEPA job assigned to me by the state government to keep Aba clean.”

    The report generated rumours in the state that Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu had secretly been anointed by Governor Orji as to succeed him.

    The state government, through its Chief Press Secretary, Charles Ajunwa, has equally debunked the report. A statement signed by the CPS stated that Governor Orji believes in justice and equity, adding that the governor has not endorsed anyone for the 2015 governorship position.

  • ‘National Conference must be subjected to referendum’ 

    Ohanaeze Ndigbo Anambra State chapter has said the ongoing National Conference should have been subjected to a referendum first for Nigerians to decide the outcome.

    President Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Anambra State, Chief Chris Eluemunor spoke while addressing journalists in Onitsha.

    He said: “The conference should have been one step at a time and at the end, they will make recommendation to the Presidency. We want a referendum on the decisions of the National Conference and if that referendum is acceptable to Nigerians, it will help the entire country. You don’t need to push it to the National Assembly for ratification.

    Ohanaeze Ndigbo boss stated: “The President did make a promise. He has actualised his promise. He has done a lot of things to show that he is very interested in the National Conference. First of all, I have to commend him for taking such a bold step. What Igbo are saying for now is that after 100 years of amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, we need to talk because the exercise was imposed on nations that make up Nigeria today.

    “It was not voluntary. Therefore, after 100 years of amalgamation, we need to sit down and talk on how to move the country forward. We are interested in the unity of this country; nobody wants Nigeria to break up. But what Ndigbo are saying is that there must be equity and fairness in the administration of this country.

    “First, there has to be an equal state representation in the country. Right now the Southeast geo-political zone has only five states while the other zones have six states each.

    “The Igbo is a major nation in Nigeria that cannot be marginalised. The distribution of wealth in the country has to be discussed. There has to be equitable distribution of wealth in Nigeria. Some Igbo states are involved in oil producing. Anambra State has joined the oil-producing states.

    Elumunor said it is not enough to go for a conference whose outcome is not implementable. This is the fear a lot of people are having.

    On alleged plans by Mr President to use the conference for his re-election bid, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo boss said: “The conference has nothing to do with his political ambition. If anything, it is going to work against him because I know that some parts of the country are not interested in the ongoing National Conference and they may not support him because of this. But any reasonable mind knows that the President has good intentions for this country by allowing this conference to take place. It has nothing to do with his political ambition. Meanwhile he has not even told anybody that he is running for the 2015 general elections. But even if he is running what about it! He is still working within the limit of his tenure. Whether he is running in 2015 or not is neither here nor there.

     

  • 10-year-old TB patient needs help

    10-year-old TB patient needs help

    Were his health not a problem, you would still be moved to lend him a helping hand. Master Chinonso John was scarcely five years old when his mother’s mental health failed. Chinonso ultimately lost the tender care a mother would give. That was not enough. His father left his mother shortly after Chinonso was conceived. Then, the boy’s ailment set in, taking away his vitality and threatening his life. He needs help, urgently.

    Chinonso is presently receiving medical attention at the Heart-to-Heart Centre of Abia State Teaching Hospital Aba but he would need about N50,000 for blood transfusion and other medical bills to stabilise his health before proper treatment on his ailment (Tuberculosis) starts.

    When our correspondent visited Chinonso on his sick bed at the permanent site of Abia State University Teaching Hospital, Aba, his condition looked bad enough to necessitate an urgent medical attention before any comprehensive medical treatment would begin. Other patients admitted in the same room where he was admitted have left the room for the hallway to avoid being infected by the same disease.

    The Nation gathered that Chinonso, with the help of his uncle Oliver Ejikeme, has visited various hospitals in and within Aba where he was subjected to various medical laboratory examinations and treatments, none of which has cured him.

    Chinonso and his uncle who could not afford to pay a N4500 hospital bill after he was referred to the temporary site of the hospital for further treatment had the welfare department officials of the hospital to thank after the social welfare department absolved the patient’s medical bills.

    Ejikeme who hails from Okwu Udo Njaba in Imo State, said: “Chinonso’s mum has been suffering from a mental problem for over 15 years. The dad is unknown. He impregnated my sister (Chinonso’s mother) and ran away. He is 10 years now and I have lived with for the past 5years after he joined my family from the village. He was withdrawn from Ndoki road primary school, Ngwa Road when this sickness became so bad that he was losing weight every minute. I took him to different hospitals in Aba and its environs were they conducted many tests on him. Some did test for sickle cell, worm, cough, etc, but at the end of the day, they couldn’t treat or identify what really was the problem with him. We were later referred to this place from the Seventh Day Adventist Church. We came to this place this week Monday.

    Since the state government stopped us from driving Okada, I have been jobless. It is my wife that has been the family bread winner. She is the person managing the family at the moment from the little money she makes from her petty business.

    “I have spent virtually all my earnings on this his illness, but it has kept deteriorating day by day. I can’t leave this boy, with the state of his health. He is all my sister has got and will not be allowed to surfer while I am still alive.

    “I am appealing on behalf of Chinonso to philanthropists, Imo and Abia governments including other public-spirited individuals to come to his aid in order to come out of this situation he has found himself.”

    Helpers may send their cash contributions to John Gaius Chibuzo on Ecobank account 0861022941.

  • Confab: There should be no sacred areas, says ex-police service chief

    Former chairman of the Police Service Commission, Chief Simon Okeke said he is of the view that everything should be discussed at the ongoing National Conference, including whether Nigeria should continue to be one or not.

    Okeke, who spoke at his country home Amichi in Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State, said there should not be any no go areas. He advocated a decentralised police force for efficiency and better policing.

    He said: “Everything should be discussed at the Conference, including whether Nigeria should continue to be one or not and the modality for the oneness.

    He insisted that Nigeria must be restructured to give the six geo-political zones more power to control their resources and then contribute to the centre with the control of the police being decentralised.

    Okeke called on Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano to make the provision of a cargo airport in the state one of his administration’s priorities. He, however, urged the new governor not to abandon any project initiated by former governor of the state, Peter Obi.

    He said: “The need for a cargo airport in Anambra State had become necessary with the expansion of commercial and other business activities east of the Niger.

    He insisted that one of the early new projects the governor should handle would be to revisit the airport project abandoned by past administrations in the state.

    The former police boss continued: “Obi has set a high standard and his successor has a big task to maintain and surpass that standard. Obi has done well in infrastructural development, including road network.

    “Obiano should not think about infrastructure but he has to face industrialisation and agriculture as he had promised to create enough job opportunities for the teeming population.

    “He should make sure that Anambra State is fully admitted as an oil-producing state as declared by President Goodluck Jonathan.”

  • Foundation provides water for community

    Foundation provides water for community

    The days of Guinea worm and water-born diseases appear over in Ebonyi State. How? Organisations such as Carter Foundation are sinking boreholes across the state to keep people from sourcing unhealthy water from ponds and streams.

    Carter Foundation is one of the orgnisations leading the fight against Guinea worm and other diseases, simply by sinking boreholes in Ebonyi communities. Another is the Chinedu Ogah Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO).

    This has resulted in the reduction and even eradication of the disease, as the state has not witnessed fresh outbreak of the disease for years now. The eradication of the disease being a welcome development, yet still, there is a snag. Many communities in the state still do not have clean source of drinking water.

    To complement government’s effort in providing potable water for the people, the Chinedu Ogah Foundation has sunk two boreholes in Oriuzor and Nkomoro, two communities in Ezza North Local Government Area of the State.

    Speaking during the inauguration and handing over ceremony at Oriuzor, the founder of the foundation, Comrade Chinedu Ogah commended the people of the community for being law-abiding. He urged them to continue their support of policies and programmes of Governor Martin Elechi-led administration.

    Ogah, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Chiboy Group Limited, promised to assist eligible youths of the community get employment in the state civil service.

    He also advised members of the community to liaise with the local government chairman and the community leader in the area to estimate the cost of their electricity project and forward same to him for quick completion.The chairman of Oriuzor Ward, Hon Cyprian Abaji thanked the foundation for providing the borehole for the people which he said will alleviate the plight of the people.

    He said: “At the Nkumoro Market where Comrade Ogah also inaugurated another borehole, he urged the youth to be law-abiding, avoid thuggery and violence, especially during the forthcoming elections.He said: “Do not allow politicians to deceive you. If they give you guns and other weapons to fight for them, tell them to bring their sons and daughters to join you to carry the guns.”

    He also donated some amount of money to women and youths as part of his poverty alleviation programmes.The traditional ruler of the community, Ezeogo David Nworie expressed his gratitude to the foundation for carrying out the project for the community.