Onwuliri marks Valentine’s Day with orphans

ACCORDING to the Biblical injunction that: “It is more blessed to give than to receive,” the Minister of State for Education, Prof. Viola Adaku Onwuliri, at the weekend during the Valentine’s Day celebration, offered some gift items to orphans and less-privileged persons at the Red Cross Motherless Babies Home in Owerri, the capital of Imo State. 

   Representing President Goodluck Jonathan, she cut and shared a huge Valentine’s cake to children and management of the home. Food items, including bags of rice, provisions, and toiletries were also presented to the home.

   In the same vein, scores of philanthropists, including students and traders thronged the home to offer their gift items.

   The minister urged Nigerians to replicate such gesture to the needy in various homes across the country, adding that the president was propelled by the zeal to identify with children in the home because of the love and passion he has for the less-privileged.

   Receiving the items, matron of the home, Cecilia Okere, a nurse, expressed happiness that the minister had begun extending such gesture even before she became a minister and was also grateful to the president.