Niger Delta
Foundation Rekindles Hope For Widows, Sickle Cell Sufferers In Edo
About 500 widows and sickle cell sufferers, alongside other indigent people in Aruogba Community in Edo State, have benefited from medical outreach, organised by the Lebarty Community Health Foundation, an NGO.
Speaking to the beneficiaries on Sunday in Benin, Dr Nosa Aigbe-Lebarty, President of the NGO, advised residents of the community to take the issue of routine checkups seriously.
He said the medical outreach was in fulfillment of his dream, vision and aspiration to take care of vulnerable persons and the less privileged.
According to him, although we are attending to everyone present, we are targeting widows, sickle cell patients and the down trodden.
“We are offering them general body check, which includes: blood pressure, blood sugar, malaria test, and eye checkup.
“You can see that we have a team of experts available to attend to as many patients as possible. We also have sufficient drugs to give to those who will be needing it.
“There are also free glasses to be given to those who are 40 years and above that need them. We have also made adequate arrangements for referral if the need arises”, he said.
One of the collaborators with Lebarty Community Health Foundation, Mrs Itohan Aihie, said, “I see Dr Nosa as a man with great passion who started putting modalities in place to ensure that I join him in seeing his dream come through”.
Also, Mr Ezekiel Enikpaalu, Director of Humanitarian Services, the state Ministry of Youth and Humanitarian Affairs, lauded the effort of the NGO in trying to give back to the society.
Enikpaalu encouraged other well-meaning Edo Citizens to copy what Aigbe-Lebarty was doing with his Health Foundation, saying that humanitarian services should be for all.
Meanwhile, the Priest (Ohen) of Aruogba Community, High Chief Jeffery Omosomwan, has expressed joy and gratitude to the organisers of the free medical care.
Omosomwan assured them that members of his community would play their part in ensuring that the hospital sited in the community by Aigbe-Lebarty is completed.
The Tide’s source reports that the beneficiaries, who were overwhelmed with joy, prayed for God’s protection and preservation of the organisers of the event.
One of the beneficiaries, Kate Williams, said she was overwhelmed with joy as she was screened, educated and given medications.
Niger Delta
Tai Agric Sector Gets Emergency Attention …As Chairman Distributes Farm Inputs, Inaugurates Technical Team

The Chairman of Tai Local Government Council of Rivers State, Hon. Matthew Nenu Bari Dike has declared a state of emergency in the agriculture sector of Tai local government.
Speaking while distributing farm implements and other agricultural support packages to the farmers at the council’s headquarters in Saakpenwa, yesterday, Dike challenged farmers to show their farms before requesting for financial assistance.
The council boss stated that as a government, they were committed to putting smiles on the faces of the people and assured that his administration would ensure that every person in the local government is happy.
“As a government we want to assure you that, we will stop at nothing to ensure you all are empowered and living happily”.
According to him, “the gesture is aimed at enhancing food production and security through agriculture, and enjoined all lovers of agriculture in the local government area to identify with the quest to redefine development through agriculture in the local government.
He encouraged everyone to cultivate the passion and return to agriculture, to guarantee self-reliance, maximum food production and security in the area.
His administration, he said, would purchase more yam seedlings in order to get greater production to encourage exportation beyond the shores of Nigeria.
“A boost in yam production will also empower farmers in the Local Government Area”, the elated chairman said.
In a related development, the Chairman has inaugurated a five, member Agricultural Technical Committee for the Local Government Area.
The committee is made up of Pst. Anderson Wariboko, Barr. Paul Newman,, Smith Nyor-Ue, Gladys Jumbo and Dr Keke Rammyson
Also speaking, the Director of Agriculture, Tai Local Government Area, Mr Anderson Wariboko revealed that the event was part of activities to mark the chairman’s 100 days in office.
Wariboko who led the chairman, and other leaders of the council on the distribution of the farm inputs to the farmers, was full of praises for the chairman, Hon. Dike whom he said has the interest of the people at heart.
Kiadum Edookor
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