JUST IN: 4,537 beneficiaries get 20,000 cash grant – FG

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, has launched the distribution of a one-off cash grant of N20,000 to 4,537 beneficiaries in Jigawa State.

The distribution process commenced in Dutse on Thursday during the flag-off of the cash grant for vulnerable groups, the onboarding of independent monitors and the launch of digitised payment for conditional cash transfer.

Farouq in a statement in Abuja by her media aide, Nneka Anibeze said: “Our target in Jigawa State is to disburse the grant to 4,537 beneficiaries across the 27 Local Government Areas and the poor and vulnerable category across the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory.

“With this grant, many of the beneficiaries will improve their productivity and their commercial activity, all of which will help in easing them out of poverty.

“The launch of the digitised payment exercise is to create room for reliable, transparent and accessible database for seamless disbursement to beneficiaries of the Conditional Cash Transfer”.

Farouq urged the beneficiaries to invest the grant in businesses that will yield profits over time.

She also onboarded 80 independent monitors who will receive a monthly stipend of N30,000.