Pursuant to renewed efforts to ensure improved entrepreneurship and sustainable empowerment of Nigerian women, the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs has distributed about 387 items in 13 states of the federation in the first phase of its initiative to scale up the socio-economic status of women and the vulnerable especially in the rural areas. According to the Honorable Minister of Women Affairs, Barr Uju Kennedy Ohanenye, the first phase of the distribution which is coming on the heels of recent launch of an E-Market portal for women, witnessed the distribution of Garri processing and frying machines, industrial sewing machines, industrial button hole holding machines, heavy industrial irons, Tapping machines, Steam pressing machines, Sewing machines for stretches and stitches, Cloth cutting machines, Fish smoking machines,60,000 litres Fish rearing buckets and Rice Milling Machines. “For the first phase, we have distributed these items to Anambra, Kano, Rivers, Im...