Nigeria has released N3.77 billion for the feeding of 1,287,270 school children in nine states under the HomeGrown School Feeding Programme.
This is was announced on Sunday by Mr Laolu Akande, the Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President.
Akande disclosed that the benefiting states, comprising Anambra, Enugu, Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ebonyi, Zamfara, Delta and Abia, received various sums in tranches.
Furthermore, Mr Laolu Akande revealed that 14,574 cooks were engaged in the communities where the schools were located.
He said the money is paid
directly from the FG’s coffers to the cooks, with a slight variation in
Osun State where some of the food items, such as eggs, were bought
centrally by an aggregator.
Akande explained that the federal government intended to feed no fewer than three million pupils in 2017 under the feeding Programme, an aspect of the Social Investment Programme (SIP) of the Buhari presidency.
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Akande explained that the federal government intended to feed no fewer than three million pupils in 2017 under the feeding Programme, an aspect of the Social Investment Programme (SIP) of the Buhari presidency.
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