First Lady disburses N100m grant to 2,000 Benue women, commissions ICT Centre

Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, on Tuesday announced a N100 cardinal empowerment assistance for 2,000 women engaged successful petty trading crossed Benue State.

The First Lady made the announcement during the commissioning of a Community Information and Technology Centre successful Ihugh, Vandeikya Local Government Area, stressing the value of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) successful driving economical and societal development, peculiarly for women and young people.

Speaking astatine the event, Mrs Tinubu revealed that Benue State present hosts 4 ICT centres, portion a full of 15 akin facilities person been established successful antithetic parts of the country, including Abia, Cross River, Rivers, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Jigawa, and the Federal Capital Territory.

According to her, the centres person been afloat equipped with computers and different integer tools to assistance span the exertion spread and grow entree to integer opportunities nationwide.

She said, “The cognition of ICT serves arsenic a important instrumentality for empowering communities, particularly women, and volition alteration them to interruption caller opportunities and heighten youths successful t...