Abdullahi Sule, the Governor of Nasarawa State, handed 5,000 sacks of rice and N5,000 cash to tertiary students at the state’s College of Education Akwanga.
This was announced in a brief statement on the governor’s verified Facebook page on Wednesday.
According to the statement, Sule extended the gesture as a courtesy to students at the state’s higher institutions.
“At the College of Education, Akwanga 2,500 students are to share 5,000, 7.5kg bags of rice. Each beneficiary also got N5,000 cash.
“The gesture is part of the government’s plans to cushion the effect of the hardship in the country,” the statement went on to say.