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  • Prisons donates to motherless babies’ home in Calabar

    The Nigerian Prisons Service, Cross River State Command, has donated items for the upkeep of the Uwanse Motherless Babies’ Home in Calabar.

    Items donated included baby food, diapers, noodles, toiletries, and beverages among others.

    Controller of Prisons in the state, Mr Imaikop Jimmy Ndaekong, who led officers and men of the Command to donate the items, said the gesture was a token of gratitude to God for making the Command peaceful throughout last year.

    “We did this to thank God for giving us grace to do our job successfully throughout 2018 without any issue. The Command was very peaceful throughout 2018. So instead of us to do a party, we decided to use the little we have to give to this home, which need our care. We decided to celebrate with the children. “Government cannot do everything alone, so all hands should be on deck to ensure the proper upbringing of these children. Let us join hands to ensure that they are groomed.

    Just like what we do in the prisons service where we are trying to shape the adult, who has gone in conflict with the law, bring them back, rehabilitate them and reintegrate them into the society. Nobody knows what these children could be tomorrow,” Ndaekong said. He urged those in charge of the children not to relent in their duty of raising them to be good citizens of the society, and also called on the children to always respect authority.  Achieftain

  • Enugu police chief’s wife gives to motherless babies

    The wife of Enugu State commissioner of police Mrs Bilkisu Danmallam has donated several items to motherless babies in the state.

    She made the donation at the Nigerian Red Cross Society Motherless Babies home in Enugu where various items such as bags of rice, cartons of vitamin drinks, tissue papers, noodles, milk, and diapers, among others, were presented to assist in the upkeep of the babies.

    Receiving the items from Mrs Danmallam, the representative of the Matron of the Home Ms Joyce thanked the wife of the commissioner, describing the gesture as unprecedented.

    She said, “I have not seen such a wonderful and humble awesome generous person like this before.”

    It was an event that featured several police officers, including the police commissioner Danmallam Mohammed, police officers’ wives.

    The donation was part of activities marking the 48th birthday celebrations of the state police chief’s wife.

  • Association lifts motherless babies’ homes in Enugu

    Two motherless babies’ homes in Enugu have received donations of foodstuffs and other materials from members of the Enugu State Association in Sidney, Canada.

    The homes were the Nigerian Red Cross Motherless Babies’ Home and the Holy Child Motherless Babies’ Home.

    Each of the homes received five cartons of 120g Indomie, three cartons of baby food, three parks of peak milk; 18 packs of pampers, two cartons of NAN milk, two cartons of baby lotion and a bag of rice.

    Led by Bernard Emewu and Maxwell Onaga, members of the association said the donations were made out of love for humanity.

    They said it was their own little way of remembering the less-privileged people in the society. They said the items would go a long way in alleviating the homes’ challenges.

    Noting that the gesture is an annual event, they said they also have plans for the individual development of the babies, particularly in the area of education.

    Receiving the items at the Red Cross Motherless Babies’ Home which has 30 babies, the Matron, Ezinne Chinyere Ogbonna thanked the donors for the gesture, even as she urged them to maintain the yearly visit to the homes.

    She called on other Nigerians in the Diaspora to emulate members of the association by donating generously to the less-privileged in the society.

    At the Holy Child Motherless Babies’ Home that has 27 babies, they were received by Rev. Sister Agatha Francis who, as well, thanked them for their generosity.

  • Soldiers feed inmates, motherless babies in Aba

    Soldiers from 144 Battalion, Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia State and friends of the Battalion’s Officers Mess have visited inmates of the Aba Prisons and Ngwa Road Motherless Babies home. They did not go empty-handed; they took food items and other daily needs along.

    Some of the items donated at the Aba correctional facility were two bags of rice, 22 tubers of yam, two cartons of malt, two cartons of tissue paper, a carton of detergent soap and about N13, 000 cash. At the Ngwa road Motherless Babies Home, they delivered two cartons of tissue paper, two bags of rice, three cartons of diapers, two cartons of malt and milk products, sweets, one carton of toilet soap, cartons of biscuits and a cash donation of N10,000.

    At the home the babies relished a rare opportunity to interact with soldiers, while for the prison inmates it was a chance to view their uniformed benefactors in another light considering that they may well have been the ones who once arrested and handed them over to the police. Some may even be thankful to the visitors for sparing their lives.

    Speaking to newsmen, Lt. Col. Umar Kasim Sidi, the 144 Battalion Commander said that they embarked on the project as part of their humanitarian obligation to touch the lives of indigent members of the public and to also show love to the needy with help from other members of the 144 Battalion Mess.

    Sidi who stated that the visit was to further foster military-civilian relationship in their host community, said that the military while fighting crime in Aba and its environs are also aware that the needs of the people living in their immediate community must be met.

    He warned those who because of economic challenges took to crime to retrace their steps, stressing that the weight of the law would not hesitate to befall anyone that took to crime instead of exploring opportunities provided for by the abundant legitimate businesses in the country.

    “We are aware that the economy is bad and people are not finding it easy to feed well. The federal government cannot be left alone to carter for the needs of the people and that’s why we decided to in our own little way see how we can come in and assist the less privileged in the country.

    “In military mess, we have officers and civilian members. That is why what we have donated to the two homes came from our men and other members of the mess.

    “I want to use this opportunity to assure the inmates of Aba Prisons that there is still hope for them regardless of their present conditions, while I want to say that I am optimistic that children of motherless babies’ homes in Aba will continue to benefit from this exercise because we want to make it more regular.”

    The Civilian President, Mess Committee, Mr. Sunny Mgbemena, an engineer, said the exercise was laudable, adding that he was touched by the plight of the inmates.

    Mgbemena who said that they would always assist the army and other security agencies in the state to touch the lives of the poor also stated that they would encourage members of the public to provide useful information to army and other agencies of government with useful information that will help them fight crime in the commercial city and above.

    A Chief Superintendent of Nigerian Prison Service (NPS), J.O. Nzerem who represented the Aba Prison chiet, DCP Stephen Ugbah thanked the 144 Battalion Officer’s Mess for coming.

    Ugbah promised that the items would be judiciously used.

  • Babcock Varsity alumni lift motherless babies

    An response to their sought support when they visited the SOS Motherless Babies Home some weeks ago, the Babcock University Alumni Association, Ilisan Remo, Shagamu, Ogun State, has donated gift items to the babies.

    While presenting the items, the association’s president, Mr. Nwokocha Chibueze, said the donation was its widow’s mite in support of the good works of the management of the home.

    Chibueze, who was accompanied by his aides, prayed for the staff of the home on their selfless service to the society.

    Receiving the items, father of the home, Mr. Inusa-Ahmed Anthony, thanked the association for the kind gesture, adding that the success recorded so far in the home was made possible by those he referred to as “village mothers who left their biological children to take care of the home.”

    He noted that the motherless babies’ home was a loving haven for every child, adding: “Every child is given the opportunity to study with other children to attain greatness.”

    The association also donated some items to the SOS Motherless Babies’ Home in Ijebu-Owu, Ogun State, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

    The items included two LG washing machines, two 50-kilogramme bags of rice, four cartons of Indomie noodles and eight packs of toiletries.