Thousands of women in Delta State went home empowered on Tuesday as the Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, flagged off the renewed hope empowerment program. Women, families, and vulnerable groups returned home with 50kg bags of rice, a solar-powered home system, and fabrics.
The minister assured the crowd that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, meant well for them and assured them of more dividends of democracy.
She reaffirmed that under the Renewed Hope Agenda of His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and under the leadership of the His Excellency, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, the Governor of Delta State, Delta women will no longer be left at the margins of national development, they will lead it, drive it, and own it.
She said, “Your Excellencies and Distinguished Guests, we are here today to officially flag off the Renewed Hope Women’s Empowerment Programme for Delta State. This programme is part of the strategic interventions we are rolling out nationwide to empower our women socially, economically, and politically.
“As part of this intervention, we are commencing with distributing food and non-food items to vulnerable women to strengthen their economic resilience. We are also launching the Solar Home Power Systems distribution to selected women beneficiaries.
“These solar systems are bridges to opportunity. They will provide safe and reliable energy, improve household security, reduce health risks from kerosene and firewood, and empower women-owned microenterprises to thrive. For us, one of our goals is to end energy poverty.
“Today’s intervention is only a part of a broader strategic shift led by the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs. Across the country, we are scaling up impactful, high-priority initiatives that are changing the narrative for Nigerian women and girls.
Sulaiman-Ibrahim reassured the mammoth crowd, who sang praises of the President and his wife, that all efforts are interconnected and that the federal government’s goal is not isolated interventions but a holistic, transformational agenda that puts women at the centre of Nigeria’s economic resurgence, democratic consolidation, and climate resilience.
“I say to the women of Delta State today: please do not see this intervention as an act of charity; they are empowerment tools. Let us use them. Let us build from them. Let us rise together.
“As you are all aware, when a woman is empowered with economic assets, she changes her household. She saves her health, time, and dreams when she is equipped with clean energy.
“When given a voice in leadership, she transforms communities, policies, and futures.”
Earlier, the Deputy Governor of the state, His Excellency, Monday Onyeme, assured the minister of the state’s support, assuring that it would key into the programmes of the minister and the federal government as members of the biggest party in Africa, the APC.
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