By Muhammad Nasir Bashir
Dutse, May 1, 2021 The Federal Government has disbursed about N18 million to 1,799 beneficiaries in Kafinhausa Local Government Area of Jigawa, under its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme.
Naija247news reports that the programme is one of the four Social Investment Programmes (SIP) of the Federal Government.
The Information Officer in the local government council, Alhaji Muhammad Umar, made the disclosure in a statement made available to newsmen in Dutse on Saturday.
Umar said that each of the beneficiaries, selected from Balangu, Dumadumi and Gafaya wards of the LGA, received N10,000.
He quoted the Coordinator, Special Intervention Programme (SIP) in the council area, Mr Umar Aliko, as noting that the gesture was aimed at improving the lives of the beneficiaries and lifting the most vulnerable groups out of poverty.
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