Nasarawa State governor, Abdullahi Sule, has distributed 14,000 bags of 7.5-kilogramme rice to 7,000 students of four tertiary institutions in Lafia, the state capital.
The students were drawn from the Federal University of Lafia, Isa Mustapha Agwai Polytechnic Lafia, College of Agriculture, Science and Technology, Lafia as well as the School of Nursing and Midwifery Lafia.
He stated that institutions outside the state capital will benefit soon.
The governor also disbursed the sum of N5,000 to each of the beneficiaries, amounting to N35 million.
He said that the cash would be channeled through the school management and Students Union Government (SUG) bodies in the institutions.
According to him, the gesture is not limited to indigenes of the state alone.
Governor Sule said President Bola Tinubu is doing his best to address the hardship being currently faced by Nigerians.
“At the state level, we have gone round the 13 local government areas to distribute palliatives and we decided to do the same across all the tertiary institutions for students to also benefit,” he said.
Earlier, the state commissioner for humanitarian affairs, Margaret Elayo, commended the governor for the gesture, saying it was a commitment to ensure that students were not left out of the palliatives to cushion the current hardship.
She explained that 4,000 students of the Federal University of Lafia, 2,000 students of Isa Mustapha Agwai Polytechnic Lafia, 500 students of College of Agriculture, Science and Technology as well as 500 students of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, all got two bags of 7.5kg rice each.
Elayo said that in all, 7,000 students benefitted from the 14,000 bags distributed.
She said that the state government was committed to nurturing and empowering students as future leaders.
