Ten Million Pupils Benefiting From School Feeding Programme — FG

Ten Million Pupils Benefiting From School Feeding Programme — FG

The Federal Government on Friday said that about ten million pupils are currently benefitting from its home grown school feeding programme.

The Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment, Mrs Maryam Uwais, said this when he led the management team of the National Social Investments Programme on a visit to the new Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clem Agba.

The Presidential aide, who briefed the minister on the activities of the NSIO and the level of implementation of the various components of the Social Intervention Programme of the Buhari Administration, said the initiatives had made a huge impact on the socio-economic wellbeing of millions of poor and vulnerable citizens.

She told the minister that the beneficiaries of the programme are in 32 states of the federation adding that about 400,000 poor and vulnerable households in 25 states including the Borno State Internally Displaced Persons’ camps are enrolled into the National Cash Transfer Programme.

This, according to her, is in addition to over two million people who have benefited from interest-free loans through Marketmoni, Tradermoni and Farmermoni facilitated under the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme.

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She described the N-Power Programme which had engaged over 540,000 young people in all 774 local government areas of the country as a veritable platform for the youth to explore their potential.

She said, “We are doing very well with the N-power Innovation hubs which have been quite successful. With one innovation hub in every geopolitical zone in the country, young people who have brilliant ideas can now effectively engage.

“Each hub has its own theme that is relevant to the peculiarities of the zone it is situated. For instance, the North East is more about humanitarian issues just as the South South hub focuses on oil and gas, education, security amongst other areas.