The
Sokoto State Government said on Sunday that it would give out in a mass
wedding, 250 widows and widowers across the state to give them a new lease of
life.
Alhaji
Zubairu Goronyo, the state Commissioner for Social Development, who announced
this at the screening of the beneficiaries in Sokoto, said that the venture
would gulp N30 million. According to him, a date will soon be fixed for the
exercise.
A correspondent
of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, who witnessed the screening that was done
to establish the health status of the beneficiaries, reported that various
committees handled it.
