[size=18pt]CBN honours Yuguda’s wife [/size]

BAUCHI State Governor’s wife, Hajia Hauwa Abiodun Isa Yuguda, who is the founder of Challenge Your Disability Initiative (CYDI) has won the Best Governor’s Wife Award 2009.


The award in recognition of her contribution for human development programme she initiated was bestowed on her the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

The recipient, who is Yuguda’s second wife, was honoured under the apex bank’s Agricultural Trust Fund Model Award during its fourth Annual Micro-finance Conference/ Entrepreneurship Awards along with some other prominent Nigerians.

Speaking during the award ceremony, the CBN Governor, Mallam Lamido Sanusi Lamido,  disclosed that the Entrepreneurship Awards is organised annually to reward micro, small and medium enterprises who have made impact through their investments on the lives of the citizenry.

Sanusi said the theme of this year’s conference: “Sustainable Micro-finance Delivery in Nigeria,” was aimed at addressing issues such as support for micro-finance, among others.

He, therefore, called on micro-finance entrepreneurs to embrace the policy to promote better micro-finance practices.
According to CBN representative, Mrs Yuguda’s project was selected out of 55 stakeholders nationwide that have patronised the Trust Fund Model for CYDI’s focus on changing the lives of the physically-challenged to look beyond their physical conditions and become resourceful people.

The governor’s wife was specifically commended by the apex bank for her role in pioneering the provision of funds under the Trust Fund Model in the North-East state.

Mrs Yuguda’s efforts, the bank submitted, subsequently led to her nomination for the Best Governor’s Wife in Promoting Agricultural Finance.
In a memorandum signed between CYDI and CBN in November 2009, graduates trained by CYDI in farming skills were provided with hectares of farmlands to establish and subsequently establish their own farms.

As a result of this, CYDI contributed N10 million to the Trust as its own counterpart fund where the beneficiaries are to pay back the loan in 18 months.

The CNB therefore charged other Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOs) in the country to emulate the initiative of the Bauchi State governor’s wife by participating in the micro-finance scheme to improve the welfare of the less privileged in the society.

The CBN also awarded one of the students of the Skills Acquisition Training Centre of CYDI for the physically-challenged, Miss Rhoda Simon who is the second runner up in the Micro-finance entrepreneurship section.

Miss Simon, who is trained at CYDI’s bead making section, though physically-challenged, smiled home with a cash of N100,000.

U sure Turai and Zainab Yar'adua go find this one funny?

Sanusi just they invite wahala sha!!!!

Sanusi needs to go and sit down and stop all these attention seeking stunts.

The clash of the titans.

@OP,

Please, stop posting your personal opinion or interpretation as a title while producing a totally different content.

This is misleading.

Very misleading and stupefying.

nonsense