Benue first lady bags CEFTER Ambassador award


Benue first lady bags CEFTER Ambassador award

Posted byEcomedia June 25, 2019 Leave a commenton Benue first lady bags CEFTER Ambassador award

By Shimaondo Ajikwa


Dr Mrs. Eunice Ortom, the First Lady of Benue State today bagged the “CEFTER Platinum Ambassador Award”.
This is coming Forty Eight hours after Organisers of the First Benue Book Festival presented her with the “Literary Excellence Award”.
CEFTER is Centre for Food Technology &Research,an African Centre of Control of Post Harvest Losses,Benue State University Makurdi.
The event was the CEFTER Post Graduate Conference with the theme:Tackling the Menace of Post-Harveat Losees in West and Central Africa which held at the College of Health Sciences of the institution.
Platinum is a silvery-White Metal and is used in jewellery.
It symbolises true Love,purity,rarity and strength. Indeed whatever is made in Platinum symbolises the everlasting endurance of love.its an equivalent to the ideals of enternal true love.
The true meaning of what Dr Mrs Eunice Ortom,wife of the Governor of Benue State means to CEFTER thus deserving a Platinum award was therefore displayed by the vice chancellor of the university Professor Msugh Kembe who after listening to her contribution, handed her the award at the gathering which comprised of management staff and students of the centre particularly as well as other dignitaries who witnessed the event.
This is what the centre said of Mrs Ortom to deserve the award.
*in 2019,Dr Mrs Ortom supported CEFTER to supply Soya Yoghurt to primary school pupils in Benue state earning the centre up to 180M.
*in 2017,The first lady sponsored the training of over 4000 food vendors on the Home Grown School Feeding Programme by the centre earning it 10M.
*In 2016,the office of the First Lady sponsored the training of about 500 food handlers in the state earning 5M for the centre as well as attracting a “Standing Ovation”from the World Bank.
*she endorsed the centre’s short term courses for the training of youth sponsored by her NGO Eunice Spring Of Life Foundation ESLF on food processing.
*The First Lady is working on a partnership with the Bank Of Industry BOI which will enable the bank provide start up loans to Short term ttrainees of the centre.
*Only recently,the wife of the Governor of Benue State held a discussion with Mogilev State University of Food Technologies in Belarus to collaborate with CEFTER.
In her remarks after receiving the award,Dr Mrs Ortom applauded the University particularly the centre for finding her worthy pointing out that the achievements of the centre is for the benefit of the state as a whole.
“My motivation arose from my concern on food hygiene and the diseases that arise from food”.
She therefore prayed God to increase the knowledge of people of the state so as to keep them healthy and wealthy.
The first lady also appealed to farmers in the state to take advantage of the centre so as to benefit from knowledge on post harvest losses,storage and preservation amongst others.
Other speakers at the event including the Vice Chancellor Professor kembe,Professor Adedzwa, leader of the centre and Professor Ayati of the post graduate school all congratulated the first lady for her interest in the University and the centre in particular

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