Tag: School Feeding Programme
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349 ghost schools discovered in school feeding programme in Nasarawa
The Enumeration Committee for the home-grown feeding programme for public primary schools funded by the Federal Government of Nigeria says it has uncovered 349 ghost schools in Nasarawa State benefiting from the scheme.
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School feeding: FG to enrol additional 5m pupils by 2023 – Minister
Hajiya Sadiya Umar- Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, says the Federal Government will enrol about five million pupils into the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) by 2023. Farouq made the disclosure during a stakeholders meeting for the enumeration of beneficiaries and scaling up of the NHGSFP in Zamfara.…
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FG using school feeding agenda as ploy to steal N13bn from national treasury – PDP
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the school feeding programme embarked upon by the Federal Government is targeted at stealing N13.5 billion from national treasury. In a statement on Wednesday by the spokesman for the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party said embarking on school feeding programme while schools remained shut on account of…
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7.6m children feed daily from FG’s school feeding programme – Osinbajo
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday, said that about 7.6 million children in 22 states across the country were being fed daily under the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP). Osinbajo made this known in Akure during an interactive session with beneficiaries of the NHGSFP and inspection of the N-Power Programme at Alagbaka Estate…