The Federal Government says it has
served no fewer than 246.4 million meals to primary school pupils across 20
states in Nigeria under the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme
(NHGSFP).
Senior Special Assistant on Media to the Vice President,
Laolu Akande, who gave the figure today, explained that it represented the
meals served since December 2016.
Akande said the meals served will reach 313,928,420 by the
last week of February 2018, as 6,044,625 pupils in 33,981 public primary
schools are fed.
He added that more states were expected to be added to the
programme this year as the NHGSFP plans to implement feeding in a total of 28
States.
The Vice President spokesman said that the programme will
soon link farmers to school feeding markets.
According to Akande, several milestones have been recorded
by the Buhari administration’s National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP) in
2017 in line with its inclusive growth plan.
The plan includes tackling poverty, hunger, and creating
jobs for Nigerians.
He said, “About 40,000 direct jobs have since been created
from the School Feeding Programme across the participating states.’’
The states covered by the NHGSFP programme now inlcude
Anambra, Enugu, Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ebonyi, Zamfara, Delta, Abia, Benue, Plateau,
Bauchi, Taraba, Kaduna, Akwa-Ibom, Cross River, Imo, Jigawa, Niger and Kano.
Last year, the feeding programme collaborated with the
Federal Ministry of Health to deliver an integrated deworming programme for
pupils in all public primary schools classes 1 to 6 across 17 states.
The programme has also created a social
media-based quality assurance tracking system, #TrackWithUs.
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