The Nigerian Federal Government on Saturday gave out N20,000 grant for Rural Women Project and Symbolic Disbursement to no fewer than 3,500 women across Ogun state.

Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, while flagging off the programme, explained that the women were carefully selected from different rural parts of the state.

Hajiya who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Bashir Nura Alkali said the initiative is part of the programmes line up for the National Social Investment Programme as a strategy for reducing poverty and enhancing social inclusion.

The minister further said the ministry ” is working tirelessly to address some of the socioeconomic problems that are bedeviling all parts of the country by strengthening the humanitarian-development-peace nexus” adding that the grant is expected to increase income and productive assets of target beneficiaries.

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