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  • Children’s Day: Military officers’ wives pledge to protect, uplift children

    Children’s Day: Military officers’ wives pledge to protect, uplift children

    The Defence and Police Officers’ Wives Association (DEPOWA) has pledged to protect and uplift every Nigerian child to achieve their full potential.

    DEPOWA made the pledge during an event on the occasion of the 2025 Children’s Day celebration, in Abuja, on Tuesday.

    Speaking at the celebration, DEPOWA president, Mrs Oghogho Musa, emphasised collective responsibility to protect, nurture, and guide the children who are the youngest citizens.

    She said, “Children’s Day is a day of joy, reflection, and celebration. It reminds us that every child represents hope, promise, and the living heart of our nation.”

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    Mrs. Musa emphasised the need for consistent support systems, educational, emotional, and social, to ensure every child, regardless of circumstance, has the opportunity to thrive.

    “As adults, we have a duty to guide with wisdom and love,” she said.

    “We don’t just talk about children, we act for them. We support the education of service members’ children, stand with widows and orphans, and create safe spaces for families even in the face of sacrifice.”

    The DEPOWA president encouraged all children to keep learning, keep dreaming, and never lose faith in their potential.

    She called on all stakeholders and the broader community to raise children not only with discipline but with dignity, compassion, and purpose.

    “Children are a heritage from the Lord, a reward entrusted to us. Let us give them something beautiful to imitate, something strong to believe in,” she urged.

    The heartwarming event was dedicated to honouring children across nursery, primary, secondary, and special needs schools. 

  • Succour for soldiers’ widows

    Succour for soldiers’ widows

    • DEPOWA unveils milling shop at NAFRC

    To cushion the effect of the economic hardship being experienced across the country, the Defence and Police Officers Wives Association (DEPOWA) at the weekend donated palliatives to over 50 widows of soldiers.

    The beneficiaries whose husbands died in active service were given foodstuffs and cash gifts at the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre (NAFRC), Oshodi.

    Handing over the palliatives to the beneficiaries, DEPOWA President, Mrs..Oghogho Musa, urged them to remain good citizens and ensure that the various skills they had acquired before were adequately utilised.

       Mrs. Musa who also unveiled a grinding and milling shop built at the centre by the Coordinator of the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre Officers Wives Association (NAFRCOWA), Grace Amesinola, said they would continue to embark on activities and programmes that will better the lives of soldiers’ wives and children.

    According to the DEPOWA President, the grinding and milling shop aligned with her vision to empower women and girls to become productive contributors to family and society.

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    She articulated the initiative’s role in enhancing capacity development for DEPOWA and Defence Non-Commissioned Officers’ Wives Association (DENCOWA) members, as well as providing crucial humanitarian support to the less privileged and vulnerable individuals.

    She commended the NAFRCOWA coordinator for her ‘ingenuity and unwavering commitment” to establishing the Grinding and Milling Shop, underscoring its potential to alleviate the hardship faced by the wives and children of military personnel in grinding food products.

    “I wish to appreciate the Coordinator NAFRCOWA Mrs Grace Amesinola for her ingenuity and commitment in establishing the Grinding and Milling Shop, this will really reduce the hardship of going to distant places by wives and children of personnel to grind food products.”

    The Commandant, NAFRC, Air Vice Marshall (AVM) Adeniyi Amensinola lauded the DEPOWA president for providing assistance to those who have sacrificed so much for the nation’s security and well-being.

    He emphasized the importance of not forgetting the widows and orphans of the deceased personnel and assured them that their spouses’ supreme sacrifice in the line of duty would not be in vain.

    “The show of human kindness and initiatives such as we are witnessing today being undertaken by the President DEPOWA are reassuring and comforting bearing in mind that widows of deceased personnel are not forgotten and that the supreme sacrifice paid by their spouses in the line of duty while upholding national security is not in vain. “As we continue to remember our fallen heroes and veterans who sacrifice much to the nation, we use this opportunity to thank Almighty God for their lives well spent in the service of our dear country as well as in maintaining regional peace and stability”, he said.

    The Nation reports that the visit also saw the DEPOWA President and members of his entourage planting trees at the Widows and Orphans skills acquisition site inside NAFRC.

  • DEPOWA donates materials to First Lady’s Renewed Hope Initiative

    DEPOWA donates materials to First Lady’s Renewed Hope Initiative

    The Defence Chiefs and Police Officers’ Wives’ Association (DEPOWA) has donated food items and clothing materials to the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu’s pet project, the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI).

    A statement yesterday in Abuja by the First Lady’s spokesperson Busola Kukoyi said the items consisted of 300 bags of 25kg rice, 250 bags of Semovita, 250 bottles of groundnut oil and 250 pieces of Ankara materials.

    The association delivered the items to support the initiative’s efforts at providing succor to the less privileged across the country.

    Receiving the items on behalf of the First Lady, a member of RHI Governing Council, Prof. Hafsat Ganduje, expressed appreciation to DEPOWA for the gesture.

    She noted that the gesture aligned with the mission of the RHI to ensure a better life for all families.

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    “Indeed, we are happy to see this particular organisation keying in into the Renewed Hope Initiative. The initiative has some cardinal points, areas that we are considering. By the grace of God, we are going to cover the areas within the tenure of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

    “The items are going to be used judiciously, especially to cushion the effect of what our people are experiencing. They are coming into good hands.

    “I assure you that we are going to distribute them. This is going to be part and parcel of what our people are going to enjoy,” she said.

    Handing over the items to RHI, wife of the Chief of Defence Staff and DEPOWA National President Oghogho Musa Gwabe said the donation was in fulfillment of the pledge the association made to support the RHI for women empowerment.

    She pledged DEPOWA’s unalloyed commitment to the pet project of the First Lady in agriculture, health, economic empowerment, social investment and education, among others.