The Federal Government has disbursed one point three billion Naira to over one hundred thousand less privileged and poor households under the Conditional Cash Transfer programme in Katsina State.
Special Assistant to the state governor on Empowerment and Special Intervention, Abdulkadir Mamman-Nasir, who disclosed this said each of the beneficiaries recieved ten thousand Naira under the programme in the past two months.
He said the Federal Government also expended over one point one billion Naira to facilitate provision of free meals to over eight hundred thousand pupils across two thousand seven hundred and seventy seven schools in the state under the Home Grown School Feeding Programme.