The Federal Government of Nigeria, under the Home Grown School Feeding Programme, has released N3.77 billion for the feeding of 1,287,270 school children in nine states.



Mr Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Acting Presifent Yemi Osinbajo, said the money was spent in Anambra, Enugu, Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ebonyi, Zamfara, Delta and Abia states.



Mr. Akande noted that the money is paid directly from the Federal government’s coffers to the cooks, with a slight difference in Osun State where some of the food items were bought centrally by an aggregator.



The Special Assistant on Homegrown School Feeding Programme in the office of the Vice President, Mr Dotun Adebayo who led a team of both federal and state officials to the schools said they witnessed the feeding in three schools in Awka: Community Primary School, Awka South; Central School Ameobi, and Central School in Nibo.


“The pupils were excited and enjoyed the meals,” Adebayo said.



Mr. Adebayo added that the cooks in those three schools, among the total 774 already recruited and trained for the feeding programme, served ‘okpa’ a.k.a moin-moin garnished with vegetables to the delight of the pupils who took the meals during their break time about noonday.



Aside from encouraging school pupils to embrace education, the programme is in line with the United Nations’ steps to boost nutrition in children.



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Three billion? haba na, you should be frying chicken served with goat meat pepper soup, and a serving of grilled pork and a bottle of chilled red wine to wash it down and fried rice and salad and bushmeat and pounded yam and... haba not ordinary moi moi and water leaf. Buhari diais god ohhhhh,

Adebayo, How Is Okpa Now Moin-moin Or Whatever It Is?