Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja
Wife of the president, Aisha Buhari, has asked Nigerians, as they go to the polls, tomorrow, to decide whether the poor should become poorer and the rich richer or a society where the gap begins to be reduced.
She stated this, yesterday, when she presented empowerment packs to 1, 250 women and youths from the six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory, in Abuja.
In a statement by her Media Adviser, Adebisi Olumide Ajayi, he quoted Mrs. Buhari as saying that poverty is one of the indices that encouraged people to embrace vices, including terrorism kidnapping and begging.
Earlier, the Director General, National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Dr. Nasir Mohammed Argungu, disclosed that in 2014 to 2015, the revenue allocation to the agency has not changed.
The programme was organised by NDE in collaboration with The Future Assured initiative of the wife of the President and Defence and Police officers wives association (DEPOWA). The beneficiaries went home with cosmetology starter packs worth N40, 000.