This Day (Lagos)

Nigeria: Foundation Supports Students, Widows

19 November 2012

About 179 people including students and widows over the weekend at Ewatto in Esan South-east Local Government Area of Edo State were beneficiaries of the sum of N8.6million doled out to them by the Agbonjagwe Leemon Ikpea Foundation.

The beneficiaries were made of 26 university undergraduates with each receiving N100.000 each, 14 Polytechnic undergraduates students (N50, 000 each), 20 Colleges of Education undergraduates (N50,000 each), and 55 secondary schools students with each student receiving N20, 000 each.

The foundation also gave out N50,000 each to 44 widows to start any small scale business of their choice.

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