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A total of 3 000 women in Kogi State have benefited from the Federal Government cash grant to vulnerable and poor rural women across the country, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouk, has disclosed.
The minister who disclosed this in Lokoja, on Tuesday, during the flag-off of the programme at the Government House, said 3,000 women would receive the grant across the 21 Local Government Areas of Kogi State.
The minister who was represented by the permanent secretary in the ministry, Alhaji Bashir Nura Alkali, at the ceremony, said the Buhari administration was irrevocably committed to making life meaningful, particularly to the downtrodden, despite enormous challenges.