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Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima on Sunday flagged off the distribution of food items and farm outreach targeting 40,000 victims of the Boko Haram insurgency through the of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which donated one million dollars to the Borno State Government as a post conflict intervention that is meant to victims who are returning to their communities.
Governor Shettima launched at the with the distribution of 25 kilogram bag of rice and 10 kilogram bag of beans to each of 1,100 households at Mainok village in Kaga local government area, 45 kilometers away from Maiduguri. The Governor announced that officials of the State Government working with the Gates Foundation used the $1m to procure the food items and commenced funding of 100 hectares of farm where beans is being cultivated. He explained that 200 farm-families will be allocated tilled and fertile land measuring half hectare each along with improved seeds, fertilizer, chemicals and technical supervision so that they can start growing food crops. The Governor also announced the release of two trucks of maize grid to add to the food procured with Gates donation.
“We are grateful to God for creating people like Mr Bill Gates and his dear wife, Melinda. These leading lights of philanthropy across the world have shown love to the good people of Borno State at a time we are on the ground and looking for any hand to hold in trying to lift ourselves up, the Governor said.
Officials of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ‎(UNOCHA) witnessed the distribution with good will presented by them.
The Commissioner for Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement in Borno State, Dr Babagana Umara Zulum explained that two trucks of food items as well as two farms in Damboa and Konduga funded through the Gates donation were ‎ready for immediate access on Sunday while more communities were to benefit in a continuous exercise.

http://sunnewsonline.com/bill-gates-donates-1million-food-aid-to-borno/

Impressive!

You are rich not when you show off your wealth but when the poor and needy can benefit from the little help you render - Michael

Bless you sir!

This is impressive. Very laudable! One thing I have come to realize over the years is this; giving to the needy or poor and the rewards that comes with it is a universal thing. The Bible onishes us to give and watch as the heavens will be opened and blessings will overflow. But the truth is that this doctrine is universal.

It doesn't matter if you are a Christian, Muslim, Jew etc. once you give, your reward will multiply.

The irony of it is that, non believers have understood this much more than Christians.

Good

Hmmmmmm

Can i get half of that

Let the money serve the purpose. Thunder go fire anybody wey chop am . We are

One word RESPECT

What a man!

We have so many billionaires here especially in the north yet they do little or nothing.

Dangote charity is on TV and news papers, the impact is really felt by the masses

Good one from Mr. & Mrs. Gates

Our show-off celebrities should take a cue from these philanthropist abeg. Instead them dey go do their children traditional marriage for Amsterdam, court wedding for Hague, Church wedding for Rome and reception party for Las Vegas. Mtchwww...

Chai, oga bill gate don make big mistake oh, none of these funds will get to the intended individuals.... Dansuki clowns will infest on it

I will not be poor like this Bill gate

Nice one

lielbree:
We have so many billionaires here especially in the north yet they do little or nothing.

Dangote charity is on TV and news papers, the impact is really felt by the masses

what have the flying General Overseers done with the billions they get from tithes?

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Good Gesture from Bill Gates

Good news

As someone stated earlier your wealth is nothing if you can not help humanity with it.Even though the Northerners could have prevented this insurgency by not harbouring the terrorists ,they didn't but I know they have learnt their lessons.

This is why this man and his generation will never be poor.

Mr Dangote watch an learn, it's not all about taking cus "Blessed is the hands that giveth and not the one that taketh "

[quote author=Mykel4God post=48480914]Impressive!

You are rich not when you show off your wealth but when the poor and needy can benefit from the little help you render - Michael

Bless you sir![/quote. ]. “Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished.” — Muhammad (PBUH)

'Em go still pack some keep..
#9jaIhailoooo

I pray 20% of this money get to the IDP.

This is a man, teaching our tight fisted Nigerian billionaires the true value of wealth.
We have the Babangidas, The Buharis (whose wife is a billionaire buh he is a pauper), The Danjumas, Obasanjo, Dantata, Our billionaire Men of God, etc etc all of them in one country, yet it's a total stranger who would teach us what it is to be humanitarian.
There is something about being black , it makes you over value the worthless things you have.

Thats nice. Good gesture from Bill Gates and more fresh air for the IDPs. Its all now in nigerian newspapers online

CACAWA:
what have the flying General Overseers done with the billions they get from tithes and school fees?

My brother ask oh! Head of churches and imans... silent billionaires!

And pastors are so stingy eh!

CACAWA:
what have the flying General Overseers done with the billions they get from tithes?

Scammers in the name of Pastors/Imam/GO/Sheikh

Religion is the greatest scam ever invented by man!!!

You see what I said the other day , Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and the rest are truly men and women of GOD not those useless pastors /imams that call themselves men of god instead of men of Dog, can oyedepo do this in his own country?, or can Chris okotie, or oyakhilome nor oritsejafor or adeboye instead they are ready to collect tithe and offering from that $1 million.... Useless people..... They collect money in exchange for their useless prayers, fraudsters....
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Please this donations must not through these offices except d IDP camps will receive nothing......

1. Office of the wife of d president
2. Office of the daughter of the president
3. National Assembly.,.....

Why donating? Thought I read it somewhere that Borno is safer than where Bill Gates resides... Abeg, help me tap Mr. Lai

***Safe means excellent in security, excellent in accommodation and feeding...help me to add more

May The Lord give him long life. . .

1 million dollar food?!

That should be a shitload of food thou.