10 million children to benefit from FG’s schools feeding programme

At least 10 million primary school pupils across the country will benefit from the newly- introduced school feeding programme initiated by the federal government and tagged “Buhari food for the children.”

This was disclosed by Senator Chris Ngige, the minister of Labour and Employment, in an interview in Awka, Vanguard reports.

According to him, while five million pupils from Primary 1 -3 would be catered for by the federal government under the programme, the states were expected to feed another five million from Primary 4 -6 through a counterpart funding programme.

Ngige said the programme had begun in eight states, including Anambra state.

The minister noted that it was important that Nigerians to know that ‘it is Buhari food for the children’ which, according to him, was part of measures to cushion hardship faced by parents.

While urging other states to key into the programme in view of its benefits to the Nigerian children, Ngige said that Kaduna and Osun states were already embarking on the programme before it was introduced nationally.

He said: “To whom much is given, much is also expected. For the federal government to use Anambra as one of the states to begin the school feeding programme shows that President Buhari considers Anambra a very important state. We therefore call on the Anambra state government to fulfill its part of the agreement without delay.”