BENUE BOOSTS CHILD PROTECTION WITH GRADUATION OF 60 UNICEF-BACKED SOCIAL WORKERS. (PHOTOS).

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 BENUE BOOSTS CHILD PROTECTION WITH GRADUATION OF 60 UNICEF-BACKED SOCIAL WORKERS  Benue State has taken a major step toward strengthening child protection and social welfare services with the graduation of 60 Auxiliary Social Workers (ASWs) trained to serve vulnerable children and families at the grassroots. The graduation ceremony, held on Wednesday, marked the successful completion of a programme jointly supported by the Benue State Government, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the Bureau of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, and the Benue State Bureau for International Cooperation and Development (BICD). Speaking at the event themed “Building Community Resilience Through Professional Auxiliary Social Work,” the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Hon. Mrs. Theresa Apochi-Ikwue, described the initiative as a strategic response to gaps in child protection services across the state. She said the newly trained ASWs would...
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UMUONA HOLDS YAM COMPETITION, GIVES SCHOLARSHIPS TO BEST SCHOOL CHILDREN. (PHOTOS).#PRESS RELEASE

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 Umuona holds Yam competition, gives scholarships to best school children


By Uzo Ugwunze


Umuona Community in Aguata Local Government Area, Anambra State which recently coronated HRH Igwe Ikechukwu SC Ezeofor (Ezedioramma II) as her new tradional ruler has held a Yam competition, giving out prizes to winners and Scholarship support to  best school children as the community marked the 2023 New Yam festival amid pomp and happiness for a dawn of a new era.


"Umuona has risen again. Umuona is blessed. Good things will continue to flow into our town. My people wish that I rule them like my father, Late Ezeofor Ezedioramma 1 of Umuona but by the grace of God since we all believe in progress, forward ever, I will do better than my late father because I am a friend to children who are the leaders of tomorrow," Igwe Ezeofor said as he cuts his first new yam festival celebration on the throne.


According to the Chairman 2023 New Yam Festival Organizing Committee, Bro Ifeanyi Onyejekwe flanked by the Yam Competition Inspector, Mr Okey Emezuo, agriculture is very important, it is the next economy. 


"People should encourage and support farmers and those who embrace agriculture as their occupation just like Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State is doing because their is money and future in agro business.


"This year, 34 native farmers from Umuona registered for this Yam Competition. After weighing the sizes of the yarn which were monitored to ensure the yams were cultivated and harvested from Umuona soil, we gave cash prizes to the first three overall winners and consolation prizes of farming implements to the rest 31 farmers.


"We also gave scholarship support cash prizes and school kits to best students from each of the classes of the two schools we have resident in Umuona community. Also, we are giving away bags of rice, food stuffs to everyone who participated in this New yam festival here today. The beginning of this new era is good,it will continue to be better," Onyejekwe said.


"In the Yam competition, Beatrice Okafor who emerged winner with 39.3kg yam received N100,000 cash prize while Peter Chukwudum who came second with 19.4kg yam  and Nicholas Adirieje who came third with 18.1kg received N50,000 and N30,000 respectively," Okey Emezuo announced.


The President General, Umuona  community, Chief Kenneth Okoli (Ide Umuona) after praying for better days ahead and wishing a peaceful reign for the new monarch, commended members of new Yam festival committee headed by Bro Onyejekwe, saying that over a decade now, Umuona has never witnessed such home coming, sponsorship and conviviality.


One of the scholarship recipient who received 10,000 naira cash prize, Chikamso Emezuo a Basic 5 pupil and her parents thanked the organizers of the new yam festival for recognizing and promoting hardwork and excellence, saying that it would urge the pupils to engage in healthy competition. (Ministry of Information)

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