FG PAID SUPPLIERS OF FOOD FOR SCHOOL FEEDING FOR JANUARY 2020

The Federal Government has proactively paid suppliers of foodstuff and cooks under the Home Grown School Feeding Programme for January 2020 to ensure that feeding the 9.9 million pupils in the participating States and the FCT starts immediately schools resume in the next two weeks.

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq announced this in Abuja, explaining that the payment covered the cost of feeding pupils in the 33 participating states.

The Minister disclosed that the funds were released in December to give the suppliers and cooks adequate time to procure and stock foodstuff to ensure that pupils eat their meals timely.

“We believe that paying these funds early is critical to the success of the programme. We do not want any hitches, and we want to ensure that the school children are fed on time, and without any excuses," the Minister emphasised.

The Minister warned that the Federal Government would not accept any drop in the nutritional quality of the meals given to the children.

Hajiya Sadiya said the Federal Government has gladly received reports of improved attendance in the schools and improved hygiene among the pupils, adding that these outcomes were some of the reasons for setting up the programme.

Under the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme a total of 9,963,726 pupils are fed in 54, 942 schools across the country served by 107,862 suppliers and cooks.

The programme is one of the components of the Social Investment Programme (SIP) of the Federal Government under the purview of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.

Signed
*Halima Oyelade*
SA, Media to the Honourable Minister

nero2face:
please this so called school feeding, is it for some zones alone?, I've not seen nor heard anything of such here in SE/SS...pliz someone should inform me if am getting it wrong...

RichBoy247:
But I think this should be stopped. If so called parents cannot feed their children, why did the parents give birth to children?

Wronggee:
ACP government with different format all the time

Bobbysmicky:
Why not use this money to set up something reasonable that can be beneficial to the country and help boost our economy or reduce unemployment, parents should feed their children abeg cus i see this as a waste of fund

adecz:


A beautiful FTC at the end of
This year!!!


Meanwhile, this school feeding
program is another nonsense one
by the mumutious APC govt.

Billions are wasted 'feeding' pupils that
have no classrooms to study in.

MIRed:


Before you come online and start insulting people, pls learn to get your facts right.
This so called feeding programme, have you witnessed or seen it in the SE/SS zones...I am partially sure you've not and even if you have. What kind of food were the children given?

Have you worked with any NGO before?, I'm sire the answer to this might be No. Have you partnered with any NGO on the SDG goals...

If you have, you would know that this feeding programme is exclusively carried out most likely in the North, and mindvyou I've seen the so called food given to the children...Ice cream and biscuits... I laugh you in Swahili

This government might have good plans but there are no checks and balances, even with the so called feeding, the children who are out of school in the North triple the South...

Don't be deceived by media agenda bruv, learn first to get your facts right, there are so many things not true about the APC and their agendas...meanwhile let me stop here, on a good day I'll write on a lot of things most people are not even aware of in the south...
Do you guys even know the hausa-fulanis are paid the #5,000 promised by Buhari government for elderly and unemployed... This one I heard of recent and am really being skeptical about it until I visit the Union bank in the location am in and see it with my own two eyes...

helinues:


Did you read the article at all?

33 states already enrolled in the program