by Omoleye Omoruyi
The Federal Government in a statement through the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, has reported that over 25 million meals have been served under the National Homegrown School Feeding Programme (SIP).
Laolu said that at the end of last month, the Buhari administration has spent a total N41,714,793,293 across all the 36 States and FCT implementing different aspects of the four Social Investment Programmes.
A breakdown of the total number of meals served show that 1,051, 619 million primary school pupils are now being fed across the seven states of Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, and Zamfara state. No less than 11,847 cooks have also been employed. Altogether 8,587 schools are involved in those States.
In a breakdown of the over N41B so far spent on the SIPs, N-Power, which is the job programme for unemployed graduates has received N26.418 billion, being the single largest spending item out of the four social investment programmes under the 2016 Appropriation.
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Beside, N-Power, actual released funding for the other 3 programmes, apart from other expenses, so far, are the Home Grown School Feeding (HGSFP) – N7.092 billion, Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) -N800 million, and Government Enterprises Entrepreneurship Programme (GEEP) – N7.301 billion
Directives have also been given to scale up the loan disbursement to 150,000 by end of next month.
Omoleye Omoruyi… an apprentice web/game developer, novelist, sensitive to happenings in the world. Meet him @Lord_rickie on Twitter/Instagram
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