Metro
Spring of Joy Foundation Debuts, Conducts Free Medical Checkup, Shares Foodstuffs to 250 Widows
By Eric Elezuo
A Godsent not-for-profit organisation, the Spring of Joy Foundation for Widows, has unleashed wholesome kindness to humanity as it reached out to 250 widows with its milk of human kindness, in an event tagged Food Pantry and Free Medical Checkup for Widows.
Spring of Joy for Widows Foundation, founded by a quintessential and passionate professional, Mrs. Anastiasia Daniel, is an NGO committed to making a profound difference in the lives of widows, addressing their unique challenges, and ensuring they lead lives of dignity, independence, and purpose.
The Foundation is grounded in a deep sense of compassion, equality, and social justice, with the goal of creating a world where widows are not marginalized, but celebrated for their resilience and strength.
At the well organized event held at the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Christ Disciples Parish, Surulere, Lagos, which the Resident Pastor, Richard Umoren, graciously gave out for the occasion, the Foundation released diverse and assorted food items to deserving widows, as well as conducted free medical checkups to ascertain the state of their health, using the best of medical personnels, drawn from the Christian Medical and Dental Association, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) chapter.
Originally planned to cater for the welfare of a maximum of 100 widows, the Foundation ended up catering for 250 as women, who needed assistance continued to surge into the arena, and were well catered for.
In her address during the event, the Founder, Spring of Joy Widows Foundation, Mrs. Anastiasia Daniel, who spoke from her base in the United States of America, appreciated the women for turning out in their numbers, and revealed that help has come in the form of the Foundation, to cushion the effects and mitigate every challenge they have been going through.
“I’ll like you to know that you are not alone in this journey as we are here to walk alongside with you every step of the way,” Mrs Daniel assures the widows.
Below is the detailed speech of the Founder, Mrs. Daniel:
“My name is Anastasia Ndidiamaka Daniel, and I am the founder of Spring of Joy for Widows Foundation. I would like to send out a warm welcome to all the widows who have graced us with their presence today at the Spring of Joy for Widows Foundation food pantry and medical checkup. We are deeply honored and humbled by your presence here.
Today marks a special occasion as we gather not only to provide essential support but also to celebrate the strength, resilience and spirit of the incredible women in our community. Your presence here is a testament to your courage and determination in facing life’s challenges with grace and dignity. The Spring of Joy for Widows Foundation is committed to serving and uplifting widows in our community. An event like what we are having today, the food pantry and medical checkup are just one way we strive to fulfil that mission. Through the generosity of our donors, our volunteers and our supporters all over the world, we are able to provide vital resources and services to ensure your well-being and empower you on your journey forward. As you partake in today’s food pantry, medical checkup and also counseling session, i would like to encourage you to not only avail yourselves of the practical assistance provided but to also embrace the sense of community and solidarity that surrounds you. I would like you to know that you are not alone in this journey and we are here to work alongside with you every step of the way. I would like to recognize our dedicated volunteers and staff, If I am permitted I woulike to recognize certain persons too.
I would like to recognize first my dear husband, Pastor Samson Daniel for being a source of strength to me; he has been a backbone and my supporter. I want you to know that I love you and appreciate you. I want to say thank you for standing with me through this journey even the days I was down, I was scared and about to give up, you held my hands and said keep going. From the deepest part of my heart, I say thank you.
I would also like to appreciate my outreach coordinator, Apostle Paul Nwankwo of the Assemblies of God Church, who from the very beginning stood with me; a young lady he just met a couple of years ago, I say thank you.
I would also like to appreciate my personal assistant, Mrs. Elizabeth Adegbite; thank you for your resilience, thank you for running with this vision, thank you for not giving up, thank you for all you have done, I am highly grateful.
I would like to thank Pastor Richard Omoren and Pastor (Mrs.) Richard Umoren for your great support to this food pantry and medical checkup; thank you for opening up the church for us to use. I want to thank the RCCG community for allowing Spring of Joy for Widows Foundation to partake or come in to do this, we are really grateful. Thank you for giving us a platform, we really appreciate you.
I would also like to say a big thank you to the provincial pastor, Pastor Supo Oluwasakin, I am grateful to you for taking out time to come out, and be a part of this food pantry and for being a source of encouragement and strength and support for the widows and everyone there, you have never met me before and you did this; Spring of Joy for Widows Foundation is highly grateful. I will also like to use this opportunity to thank the doctors from LUTH. Thank you for accepting our invitation, thank you for what you are doing today, thank you for taking care of our widows, and ensuring that they are healthy, we are grateful.
I would like to thank the amazing widows that came out today, I want to thank you for leaving your homes and coming here, you could have said you don’t want to come but you came.”
In his sermon at the humanitarian event, the guest Minister, and RCCG Assistant Provicial Pastor, Lagos Province 4 (LP4), Pastor Supo Oluwasakin, took the audience on a journey of the importance of giving, as it breeds returns. He charged everyone present to imbibe the attitude of giving, and always remember the less privileged in the society, who needs daily assistance.
A Nigerian citizen of Enugu extraction, and born in Lagos, Mrs. Daniel is an embodiment of compassion, who has taken it upon herself to contribute to the upliftment of the indigent, using the widows as a starting point.
She strongly believe that the fact that a woman has lost has husband, does not mean that she has lost her purpose, self-will and destiny goal, maintaining that “Every widow is still destined for greatness no matter the circumstances.”
This is the first leg of the food pantry and free medical checkup for Widows as undertaking by the Spring of Joy Foundation, and many more are bound to follow.
Mrs Daniel added further that come August 17, 2024, a formal launch of the Foundation will be held, in addition to a fundraising, at RCCG, Christ Disciples Parish, in Surulere, Lagos.
Metro
NAOSNP Walks: Collaboration Between Lagos Command and NAOSNP, a Welcome Development – Lagos CP Moshood
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Moshood Olorundare Jimoh, has commended the relationship between his Command and the National Association of Online Security News Publishers (NAOSNP) as healthy, and a welcome development.
The CP made the remarks on Wednesday while flagging off the NAOSNP Walk against Drug Abuse, Cultism and Domestic Violence as part of events marking the 2025 NAOSNP Week.
Surrounded by security operatives, Association members, school children and members of the public at the Lagos Command headquarters where the Walk took off, CP Jimoh noted that under his watch, crime and criminality in Lagos State has been reduced to the barest minimum while urging residents of Lagos to continue to go about their daily activities without fear as the Command is fully ready and on the alert to nib any crime in the bud.
“No doubt the level of crime in the city is very low, but we are not resting on our oars and that’s why we are engaging stakeholders like the Online Publishers in Lagos to ensure we are on the same page to further reduce the level of crime in the state to the barest level. This is not to first time the Online Publishers as an Association is coming to us, and today’s own is very remarkable, and is sending a message to Lagosians out there that this is the right way to go, and to criminals and would-be criminals that crime does not pay” CP Jimoh.
The Lagos Police Command boss also sounded a note of warning to criminals and wannabe criminals that their time is up as they would be caught.
While pledging the Command’s continued support for NAOSNP and lauding the Association as a group of note, the CP declared the Walk open.
Edo State governor, Monday Okpebholo, has threatened to send out of the weekly Executive Council meeting, any of his commissioners who fails to openly show their solidarity for President Bola Tinubu by wearing the ‘Asiwaju cap’, also known as the ‘President Bola Tinubu cap’.
Okpebholo, while speaking on Tuesday during the swearing-in of the appointees, said he would not forgive any of the commissioners who fails to wear the cap.
According to Okpebholo, the swearing in of the appointees wouldn’t have been possible without the support of Tinubu, adding that several elections have been held in the state in the past, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) lost due to a lack of support from the sitting president.
“First of all, before we begin, I want to say that this couldn’t have happened if we did not have a responsible President. We have done so many elections here. The major problem we had was the President is not with us.
“So, let me tell you, before we begin, you see this cap I am wearing? I will not forgive any commissioner that is not wearing it.
“In EXCO if you are not wearing a suit, and you are wearing a traditional dress, and you are coming to the EXCO without this Asiwaju cap, you are going back,” he warned.
The governor further warned that he would not tolerate corruption and actions that could undermine the integrity of his administration.
A woman has been arrested for setting their house ablaze after her husband was allegedly caught in infidelity.
The Rongo woman, whose identity was not disclosed at the time of this release, also poisoned all their livestock. The incident happened earlier this month.
According to the woman, her husband, who had claimed to be in Nairobi for a conference, was actually at the home of their neighbour, a widow whose husband had died just three weeks earlier.
She said, “I was passing by my neighbour’s house when I heard my husband’s voice saying, ‘I’m enjoying it.’”
Community relations officers have, however, condemned her act, saying, “Why would someone go to the extent to destroy all they’ve built because of infidelity? What of men who married more than one wife, would she had destroyed the home is she’s one of those women? Our women needs to sit and think before making rash decisions that’ll cost them and their children.”
