Amid fears that a government policy of feeding primary school pupils in the country will impose a huge financial burden on the Buhari administration, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said on Wednesday that the policy will attract investment to the tune of N980 billion.

The vice president also said the school feeding programme will bring create jobs, and raise food production as well as investment in the country.

A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the vice president on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, said the multiplier effects of the proposed scheme include job creation, increase in food production of up to 530,000 metric tonnes per annum, which will attract investor-by-investment of up to N980billion.

According to the statement, Mr. Osinbajo made the revelations while speaking on a topic “Repositioning Nigeria for Sustainable Development: From Rhetoric to Performance” at the ongoing 45th Annual Accounting Conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).
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Calling d attention of My good friend adams oshiomole.....dis wud b a good time 2 remind pmb 2 probe d vice president's school feeding policy, obviously dats ur only gift from ur God.

Things done in nigeria , most of the time ends up wrong!
I hope we will not start seeing some people growing fat on these money while we start seeing our children being fed with watery soup and shovel being used to scoop food on their plates, like we saw with the IDPs?

Better truth..

Where will they get the money to fund it

Oh...I remember Oshiomole has the account numbers where those stolen funds were stashed.

N980B chai...
I don't knw if to really agree to dis or not

Wasteful ventures of APC continues

There's something about this Buhari. All this awareness and focus on tomato, groundnut, food this, food that. He seems to have a plan for the economic growth of the North. Which is not a bad in my opinion, considering that the North needs to catch up with the rest of the other regions.

d money proposed for d feeding n payment of 5000 to d poor, wen calculated on d no. of payees involved, d amount n cost of d program is enuf to erect 2 big better company or a big refinery dat will b able to hv more dan 6000 direct employees..............



Nigeria rich and always with VISIONLESS & MISSIONLESS FUTURE..................

only think abt today ..................

jerrywool:
There's something about this Buhari. All this awareness and focus on tomato, groundnut, food this, food that. He seems to have a plan for the economic growth of the North. Which is not a bad in my opinion, considering that the North needs to catch up with the rest of the other regions.

Northern Economic Almajirism.

Almajiris mixed with owambe feeding program.
Change!

First thing first; structures! Where are they?

Why not Use this money to biuld solid schools with quality instruments to teach students.

How about giving quality trainings to the teachers that will teach the students.

How about quality remunerations for the teachers and the administrative staffs?

The administrative bottle necks that characterise the civil service will only make this grandstanding programme another conduit pipe for siphoning government funds. .

It's a laudable plan.
I just hope APC won't deny this tomorrow.

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