Funds allocated for students’ feeding
in 104 unity schools have been cut in
the 2012 budget, Education Minister
Professor Ruqayattu Ahmed Rufa’i has said.
The minister said the shortfall followed the
reduction in the overhead costs and meal
subsidy allocations of the schools. She said the
problem would create operational challenges in
feeding the students.
She stated this when the Senate Committee on
Education led by Senator Uche Chukwumerije
visited the Federal Ministry of Education on
oversight functions.
The minister said the removal of subsidies on
diesel and gasoline was also biting hard on the
unity schools and as a result, the ministry was
proposing an increase from N50 per meal to
N450.
Ruqayyatu said FGC Buni-Yadi which in 2011
had N91, 578,418 as meal subsidy and
overhead cost was reduced to N30, 440,260 in
the 2012 budget.
Other colleges adversely affected by the cuts
include: FGC Okigwe, FSC Sokoto, FGGC Bauchi,
FGC Enugu, FGC Ikot-Obio-Itong, FGC Langtang
and FSTC Jalingo.

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