The District Head of Dandi, Alhaji Mannir Ibrahim, presented gifts to village and ward heads who excelled in the collection of Zakat in their domains. The Kazaure Emirate Council in Jigawa has distributed grains worth about ₦41 million as “Zakat’’ to 6,300 less privileged people in the area.Zakat is the third pillar of Islam. It is the annual payment of 2 per cent tax by adherents who have saved at least one million of the currency in use in their countries to the less privileged as a form of alms-giving. It is permissible to use such monies to empower beneficiaries by equipping them with tool…