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Zamfara communities receive 100 cows to celebrate Eid-el-Kabir

Abdulmalik Zubairu (APC-Zamfara) has donated 100 cows to communities in his Bungudu-Maru constituency in Zamfara for the Eid-el-Kabir celebrations.

Mr Zubairu said the gesture was part of his welfare package to the people for the festival.

He said this during the distribution of the cows in Bungudu town, Bungudu local government area, on Sunday.

Mr Zubairu, represented by the chairman of the APC Bungudu LGA, Kabiru Dankulu, said cows were for various categories of beneficiaries.

The chairman of the distribution committee, Hamisu Iko, said the beneficiaries comprised the APC executives in Bungudu and Maru local government areas, APC ward executives, youths and women groups, party supporters and associations.

“Other beneficiaries include orphans, IDPs and less privileged people in Maru and Bungudu areas,” Mr Iko said.

He commended the lawmaker for his various socio-economic interventions to the constituents, especially at the grassroots.

Sallah: Kano clothes children in remand homes

The Kano State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development has distributed new clothes to children in the three remand homes in the state.

The state Commissioner for Women Affairs, Dr Zahra’u Muhammad-Umar, who was represented by a permanent secretary, Dr Sa’adatu Sa’idu-Bala, said the clothes distribution was to enable the children to celebrate the forthcoming Sallah festival.

The items distributed included new clothes, shoes, underwears, deodorants, caps and others.

Muhammad-Umar stated, “It is a rewarding gesture capable of attracting God’s favour to the government and the ministry.”

The commissioner also said the gesture was to make the children feel loved like other children and put smiles on their faces.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the beneficiaries were inmates of the Nasarawa Children Home, Torry Home, and the Goron Dutse Remand Home.

Speaking on behalf of the officers in charge of the homes, Hajiya Aisha Sani-Kurawa, commended the state government for making life comfortable for the inmates.