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FEEDING PROGRAMME: PLATEAU AMONG 20 BENEFICIARY STATES
By Udante
Ugante
5th
February, 2018
The
presidency on Saturday listed 20 states that have been covered by the National
Home grown school feeding programme (NHSFP). The listed states are; Zamfara,
Kaduna, Benue, Oyo, Anambra, Enugu, Osun, Ogun, Ebonyi, Delta, Abia, Plateau,
Bauchi, Taraba, AkwaIbom, Cross-River, Imo, Jigawa, Niger, and Kano
According
to a statement issued in Abuja by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and
Publicity in the office of the Vice President, LaoluAkande, 246 million meals
have been fed to primary school pupils across the 20 states till date adding
that the figure is expected to reach 3.3 million meals by the end of February,
2018. The statement said about six million pupils in 33,981 public schools
benefited from the program.
“More
states are expected to be added to the programme this year. The NHGSFP plans to
implement feeding in a total of 28 states, while it aims to link farmers to
school feeding in markets” it stated. The presidency added that under the
National Social investment programme (NSIP) of the present administration,
about 40,000 direct jobs had been created from the school feeding program.
The
statement further revealed that the school feeding programme now has a social
media – based quality assurance tracking system, #trackWithUs, ensuring that
required standard for menu for pupils and meals distribution are adhered to
across the states in transparent manner.
According
to the statement, “similarly, the conditional Case Transfer (CCT) has so far
recorded over 280,000 beneficiaries in 21 states while about 300,000 Government
Enterprises Empowerment Programme (GEEP) micro credit, interest free loans have
been disbursed nationwide.
“In the
same vein, in 2017, the N-Power scheme which is targeted at providing jobs for
unemployed young graduates started its physical verification process for the
2017 applicants. In 2018, more beneficiaries are expected to be added to about
200,000 young graduates currently employed under the Scheme” stated the
statement.
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