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By Martins Abochol
Jalingo, Dec. 18, 2020 The Federal Government distributed N5 million to 250 rural women in Taraba on Friday at N20,000 per head.
Mr Garba Hanawiga, Director of Legal Services at the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development made the disbursement in Jalingo on behalf of the minister, Hajia Sadiya Faruq.
Hanawiga said that the special cash grant was introduced in 2020 by the ministry as part of Federal Government’s poverty reduction agenda of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years.
He added that Taraba had received N2.8 billion since the inception of the social intervention programme of the Federal Government.