Sadiya Farouk said about 124,589 households benefited across the FCT, Lagos and Ogun states. The minister spoke against the backdrop of allegations...
The federal government says it spent about N523.3 million on school feeding programme during the coronavirus induced lockdown.
In her remarks on Monday, the minister said the Home Grown School Feeding Programme was modified and implemented in three states following the presidential directive on March 29. “It is critical at this juncture to provide details that will help puncture the tissue of lies being peddled in the public space.
“The stakeholders also resolved that we would start with the FCT, Lagos and Ogun states, as pilot cases,’’ the minister said. “According to statistics from the NBS and CBN, a typical household in Nigeria has 5.6 to six members in its household, with three to four dependents.“Based on the original design of the Home Grown School Feeding programme, long before it was domiciled in the ministry, every child on the programme receives a meal a day.“When you take 20 school days per month, it means a child eats food worth N1,400 per month.
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