Lafia – The Wife of the Nasarawa State Governor, Hajiya Salamatu Al-makura, has advised girls to live a life of moral integrity to enable them to secure better life in the future.
She gave the advice in Lafia on Thursday when graduates from her pet project, ‘’Mother and child Care Enhancement Foundation (McCEF)’’, came to congratulate her on recent award of excellence.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that an Abuja-based magazine, “Tozali Magazine”, gave the governor’s wife “Award of Excellence”.
The magazine said she was the best initiator of pet projects that had direct bearing on the life of people in Abuja.
Al-Makura said: “If you are able to live moral life and uprightness, you will be able to secure better future for yourselves and good life in the future.’’
She said that by so doing, they could have confidence in themselves and brighter future that would make them succeed in life.
Al-Makura said that the society had thrown too many challenges in the way of the girls which consequently weighed them down, make them lose their confidence, sense of security and turned out largely unfulfilled.
‘’We live in very challenging times that have made our girls to be wrongly exposed and frustrated their future”.
“Some of those challenges include assault, child labour, open discrimination, rape, and domestic violence.”
The wife of the governor, who added that the challenges had negatively affected the girls, urged them not to allow that to make them fall short of societal expectations.
She further advised them to build their self-confidence and move with the assurance that they were capable of overcoming such challenges and become responsible leaders of tomorrow.
Al-Makura called on the girls to engage in deeds that would add value to them, stressing that whatever they did, now, would form the foundation of their future adult life.
Earlier, the leader of the delegation, Miss Aisha Muhammadu, commended Al-Makura for using her project to impact positively on the life of the ordinary citizens of the state.
She urged the governor’s wife to see the award as a challenge that would spur her to do more to uplift the social and economic condition of more people in the state.