The Federal Government says it has enrolled at least nine million pupils on its National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme across the country.
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq who was represented by the Ministry’s Deputy Director, Research & Statistics, Safiyat Sanni disclosed this in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, North-Central Nigeria.
This was at the handover of feeding utensils to the Kwara State Government under the Scheme. She said the Federal Government also plans to bring on board additional five million pupils in no distant time.
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The Minister maintained that the programme is designed to address poverty in all its ramifications being a collaboration between Federal and State Governments. The Federal Government funds the scheme and while State Governments carry out the implementation processes.
Also speaking during the event, the Kwara State Governor represented by Secretary to the State Government, Mamman Jibrin urged the pupils to take their studies seriously to come out in flying colours
The scheme is expected to have a multiplier effect on the state’s economy as over one hundred cooks have been employed while other forms of employment are being created within the school feeding ecosystem in the sectors of transportation and manufacturing.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
