Office Of The Vice President Press Release: Over 5 Million Pupils In 19 States Now Being Fed Free & Daily Under Buhari's National Homegrown School Feeding Programme

*NHGSF, Federal Ministry of Health to conduct deworming exercise In 17 States

In furtherance of its goal to tackle poverty and hunger, and to create jobs for Nigerians in line with its inclusive growth plan, the Buhari administration’s National Home-Grown School Feeding (NHGSF) Programme is now in 19 states across the federation. They include Anambra, Enugu, Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ebonyi, Zamfara, Delta, Abia, Benue, Plateau, Bauchi, Taraba, Kaduna, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Imo, Jigawa and Niger states.

So far, over five million pupils (5,226,039) in 28,249 schools in these states are currently been fed under the programme, while Kano and Katsina states are expected to be added to the beneficiaries states in the coming weeks.

Also, over 50,000 cooks are currently engaged under the programme.

The school feeding programme, which is part of President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s N500 billion National Social Investment Programmes, NSIP, has a target to feed 5.5 million schoolchildren by the end of 2017.

Meanwhile, the School Feeding Programme is collaborating 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 currently under the NHGSFP in the country.

At least 243 Local Government Areas will benefit from the deworming exercise in the 17 states, including Abia, Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Niger, Osun, Bauchi, Jigawa, Katsina, Zamfara, Anambra, Benue, Imo, Kano, Kaduna, Ebonyi, Delta and Plateau states.

The integrated programme, which is scheduled for the first and second week of December in these states, will deliver three different drugs for the treatment of diseases endemic to specific states; particularly schistosomiasis; soil-transmitted helminths and river blindness/onchocerciasis. The drugs to be distributed are Albendazole, Ivermectin and Parazaquintel.

Supported by the Federal Government, three facilitators would be within the states for the period to achieve these objectives and ensure that the pupils in these states are dewormed.


Laolu Akande
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity
Office of the Vice President
20 November 2017

Awaits comments to read from the intellectuals...I'm a lazy reader, admitted

By the way...fezto kòrment..what's the biggy

hmmmm. You are tackling poverty and hunger and yet Nigeria has been Forecasted To Become The Extreme Poverty Capital Of The World By 2018... Who is deceiving whom?

In my own... it's a good starting point...
but the quality of the food delivered should be monitored... the way corruption is wired into average nigerians... they might start diverting the food supplies..
Everychild deserves a quality meal! not quarter of a egg and few grains of rice.

With what type and quality of food ?

thunder dancing shoki block your foul mouth

ya we saw the kinda food


usless people

At all at all naim bad pass

Happy lieying day to lai mohammed and APC

Parents please feed your kids before they leave your houses. Give them lunch.
These people (FG) just enjoy this.

They do it at all levels even NYSC camp.

Who are they deceiving, feeding them on newspapers.

Lies

Office Of The Vice President Press Release: Over 5 Million Pupils In 19 States Now Being Fed Free & Daily Under Buhari's National Homegrown School Feeding Programme

Nigeria is a joke

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Misplaced priorities....instead of securing dia future u r making dem eat dia future and den have noting later
Just anoda way to steal money
#sad

This is the best government ever, they even feed ghosts. damn- so wonderful!

Nislce one,
Didvidend or democracy

The worst government since d history of the world..

[color=#990000][/color]backward administration. Were they not feeding in dia homes instead of creating employment 4 d unemployed they are busy doing nonsense. Mtcheeeew!

Lies and propaganda

Feeding kids like animals. Giving them indomie in nylons and 1/3 of an egg once a week is now something of national achievement?
The majority of schools(few) that this is carried out is in the north. Down south little or nothing.
Our leaders are so heartless, brainless and wicked.

What sort of wicked propaganda is this.

Instead of budgeting billions of Naira for this show of shame, they should channel it towards improving the infrastructures of the various schools and our educational system.

I love my country but I'm ashamed of our leaders!

wizod:
[color=#990000][/color]backward administration. Were they not feeding in dia homes instead of creating employment 4 d unemployed they are busy doing nonsense. Mtcheeeew!

there are actually millions of nigerians not feeding in their homes. and then there is another set of a hundred nigerians who sat and shared 2.1 billion dollars.

1/4 of a N80 bread with palm oil abi? Make una keep deceiving una self..

Igbos should resist any food sponsored by the federal government. Did we say we are hungry or can't feed our children? Use that money to build us second Niger Bridge or our roads. This is the kind of program before you know it after 3 months feeding, our kids will go from first in Common Entrance since 90s to last behind Zamfara and we will be wondering what happened;

I don't think feeding is necessary. But the right infrastructure that makes life worth living.

Nigeria government with lies, that budget mentioned, I believe maybe 5million will be left for the feeding, we individual, we the one killing ourselfs...not the government

Over cooked noodles tied inside white nylon abi, thunder go strike some politicians this season

Buhari and lies sha

[quote author=presidency post=62572418]Office Of The Vice President Press Release: Over 5 Million Pupils In 19 States Now Being Fed Free & Daily Under Buhari's National Homegrown School Feeding Programme

*NHGSF, Federal Ministry of Health to conduct deworming exercise In 17 States

In furtherance of its goal to tackle poverty and hunger, and to create jobs for Nigerians in line with its inclusive growth plan, the Buhari administration’s National Home-Grown School Feeding (NHGSF) Programme is now in 19 states across the federation. They include Anambra, Enugu, Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ebonyi, Zamfara, Delta, Abia, Benue, Plateau, Bauchi, Taraba, Kaduna, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Imo, Jigawa and Niger states.
My go on and loot.it is ur time ,stop acusing those pupils for christ sake...

bastien:
Over cooked noodles tied inside white nylon abi, thunder go strike some politicians this season

It would have been good if it was noodles; it looks more like spaghetti and 1/4 egg.