{"id":65410,"date":"2022-10-10T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=65410"},"modified":"2022-10-10T16:24:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:24:19","slug":"nigeria-legion-empowers-widows-of-fallen-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/nigeria-legion-empowers-widows-of-fallen-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Legion Empowers Widows Of Fallen Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Alex Olise<\/p>\n<p>The Lagos State Command of the Nigerian Legion has put smiles in the faces of wives and children of late members of the Armed forces as they received empowerment packages of various form during the weekend in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>The event held at the Legion office Hall, at Arena Bolade, Oshodi-Lagos. It was attended by the Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Lagos State, Prince Nofiu Elegushi and other top officials of the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Items given included grinding machines, full salon equipment, popcorn machines, gas cookers and many more other things.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman Nigerian Legion Lagos State Command, Colonel Samuel Akande (retd) thanked the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo -Olu for approving the fund used in the empowerment programme for the widows and family members of late military personnel who lost their lives while protecting the nation.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>In a goodwill messages from the Governor, read by the Commissioner Ministry of Home affairs, Prince Elegushi appreciated the Armed Forces and other Security agencies for ensuring adequate security accross the country.<\/p>\n<p>He advice the beneficiaries of the empowerment to utilize all the equipment giving to them and promised that the State government would continue to support families of late Military heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Majority of the beneficiary who spoke to our Correspondent thanked the Governor for the gesture and urged him to sustain the yearly event.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Command of the Nigerian Legion has put smiles in the faces of wives and children of late members of the Armed forces as they received empowerment packages of various form during the weekend in Lagos.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":65411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1593,17],"tags":[9938],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-65410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-metro","category-news","tag-nigerian-legion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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