A group has trained and provided business tools to 250 women, who are mostly widows of security personnel killed in the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency in Borno state.
The Borno Women Development Initiative (BOWDI), a non-profit organisation funded by North East Regional Initiative (NERI), an international NGO, took the responsibility for the selection and training of the fallen heroes’ wives and children.
The beneficiaries were drawn from families of Nigerian military, police, State Security Service (SSS), Nigeria Prisons Service as well as the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF).
NERI’s Programme Manager, Suleiman Dauda, told Premium Times at a mini graduation ceremony that the exercise was the third in the phases of such interventions funded by his organisation.
Some of the beneficiaries of the training told our reporter the intervention was the first of its kind, given the intensity of the two-week long drills and the magnitude of the business tools given to each of them.
