Over 4,000 beneficiaries across the 27 Local Government Councils of Jigawa State are to benefit from the Nigerian Government’s grant for Rural Women Project.
The Minister of Humanitarian affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq disclosed this while flagging off the disbursement of the grant in Dutse, Jigawa State capital.
She said, “I have been following your Excellency’s transformational effort and I am confident with this track record, various projects and programmes implemented by President Buhari’s Administration will have the desired impact on lives of the people of Jigawa State.”
The Minister called on other stakeholders to support government in addressing the country’s development challenges.
The Governor of Jigawa State, Muhammad Badaru commended the Nigerian Government’s gesture, saying ”the State has benefitted from other Social Investment Programmes in the past such as Government Enterprises Entrepreneurship Programme, GEEP, Conditional Cash Transfer, CCT, Home Grown School Feeding Programme, HGSFP, among others in the past.”
He urged beneficiaries to make judicious use of the grant to assist themselves and their families.
The Governor was represented by the Special Adviser on Economic Empowerment , Abba Muhammad Mujjadadi at the event.
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