The Niger state government says it will spend N1.2 billion in every 20 days of the primary school feeding programme expected to kick off Sept. 25,
Mrs. Afiniki Dauda, Special Adviser to Governor Abubakar Bello on Empowerment and Social Protection, disclosed this in Minna, during the training of 150 food vendors and desk officers on food safety and hygiene.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the training, tagged: “train the trainees”, was organised for selected vendors across the 25 local government areas, to prepare them for the feeding programme.
Dauda said that the Federal Government would spend N70 per day, for every child involved in the feeding programme.
“We have submitted a list of well over 800,000 pupils from 3,000 schools for the programme. It's principal aim is to
raise nutritional value among pupils and increase school enrollment,” she said.
She said that 70,170 vendors had been captured for the programme, adding that their data had been submitted to the National Identity Management office for verification.
The official said that government had set up a special monitoring and evaluation team consisting of desk officers, counselors, parents and teachers association to ensure its success.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/niger-state-to-spend-n1-2bn-in-every-20-days-on-school-feeding.html

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Abeg are we mad in dis country or something?? What natural disaster is worse than these set of dumb and totally clueless and insensitive leaders abeg..

That is the change, after all they promised it, now it is here

this is nothing but rubbing the innocent people of Niger state, democratically, if the man should go on with this plan then I will be left with no option than to call him Technical thief,


I don't know why our political leaders are so clueless and stupid, Niger state own even worst pass,