The Muhammadu Buhari administration is set to launch the school feeding program in 5 states.

This is according to the Vice President's Spokesman, Laolu Akande, who said N375m has been released for the project last week. The project will kick off in Anambra, Ogun, Oyo, Osun and Ebonyi.

“The sum of about N375, 434, 870 has just been released and paid to 7,909 cooks in those states for the feeding of a total of 677, 476 primary school pupils,” he said.

Akande said Ogun got a total of N119,648,900 paid to 1,381 cooks to feed 170, 927 pupils, while Ebonyi got N115,218,600 paid to 1,466 cooks to feed 164,598 pupils.

He said Anambra got N67.5 million paid to 937 cooks to feed 96,489 pupils; Oyo State got N72.2 million paid to 1,437 cooks to feed 103,269 pupils, and Osun got N867,370 paid to 2,688 to feed 142, 193 pupils.

Akande said all monies were paid directly to the cooks and covered 10 days of school.

He also disclosed that Zamfara and Enugu States would soon be paid N188.7 million and N67.2 million, respectively, later in the week.

“In Zamfara, the sum would be paid to 2,738 cooks to feed 269,665 pupils, and in Enugu, the sum would be paid to 1,128 cooks to feed 96, 064 pupils,” he said.


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Bubu the bubu

We don't need all these knee jerk programmes wc cannot be sustained
Fix d economy so that parents will feed their children as it has always been.

Thank you Buhari. We love you.
But I know wailers will still find something negative to say about this.

Govt should stop all dis insane programme, stabilize our economy first and our children will have more than enough to eat. When you feed children in schools, but the standard of living of the general populace has nothing good to write home about.

people just comment here for the sake of commmenting . How will buhari fix the economy without stimulating it with funds? If the programme is successfully carried out , caterers, farmers, casual cooks, transporters will benefit from it!