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Food
By Modupe Seriboh
Ibadan, Dec. 18, 2017 (NAN) The wife of the Oyo State governor, Mrs Florence Ajimobi, on Monday distributed food items to orphanages, widows and other indigent persons in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that items distributed included 800 bags of rice, 1,000 cartons of pasta, groundnut oil, noodles as well as other food items.
Speaking at the forum at Government House, Agodi, Ibadan, Ajimobi said that the gesture was to give indigent persons a sense of belonging during the season.
“We all must show love and imbibe the habit of sharing in this Yuletide season. We must show love to the less privileged by sharing whatever we have.
“I join our Christian compatriots and all other Nigerians in giving thanks to God whose grace and benevolence have helped our nation to overcome the many challenges it has had since we celebrated Christmas last year.
“The annual commemoration of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ is a most auspicious time for us, as individuals and as a nation, to rededicate ourselves to the virtues and ideals which the Messiah preached and exemplified during his earthly ministry.
“Let us all, therefore, resolve at this season to make the ideals of peace, harmony, tolerance, love and goodwill to all even more manifest in our interactions with others,’’ she said.
Also speaking, Mrs Atinuke Osunkoya, the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Community Development, Social Welfare and Poverty alleviation, said the distribution exercise was a yearly gesture by the wife of the governor.
She added that the governor’s wife had relived the hopes of the less privileged in the state through the distribution of food items and cash during festive periods. (NAN)
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(Edited by Mufutau Ojo)