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The Federal Government Monday revealed that about three million children in close to 20,000 schools scattered across 14 states of the federation have so far benefited from its national school feeding programme.

It stated that a total of 5.5 million schoolchildren are expected to be fed by the end of 2017.

This information was contained in a press release by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity to the Vice President.

The statement gave a detailed breakdown of the spread of the programme, states covered, and key figures including number of schools in this pilot phase.

It read, “In total, 2,918,842 schoolchildren from 19,881 schools in the 14 pilot states of the federation have so far benefitted from the school feeding programme, which is part of President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s N500 billion Social Investment Programmes, SIPs.

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“A total of N6,643,432,789 billion have been disbursed by the Federal Government since the school feeding programme kicked off late last year.

“With 3,325 schools, Kaduna State has the highest number of schools so far covered under the programme, as well as the highest number of schoolchildren (835,508) who have been fed.

“It is closely followed by Benue State where 2,220 schools have been covered and 240,827 schoolchildren have been fed.

“Zamfara State also recorded a high number, with 1,952 schools covered and 198,788 pupils fed under the programme.

“Similarly, Bauchi State recorded impressive figures with 1,904 schools already covered, while 307,013 schoolchildren in the state have so far benefitted from the programme.

“Also, a total of 1,850 schools have been covered and 151,438 pupils have been fed in Osun State.

“In the same vein, 1,479 schools have been covered and 171,835 pupils fed so far in Taraba State; while a total of 1,403 schools have been covered in Oyo State, where 107,983 pupils have been fed.

“In Anambra State, 807 schools have been covered and 103,742 schoolchildren have been fed so far, while in Enugu State, 108,898 pupils in 622 schools have been fed.

“In Ebonyi State, the school feeding programme has so far covered 1,050 schools and 163,137 schoolchildren have been fed.

“In Ogun State, 903 schools have so far been covered with 231,660 pupils fed. Also, a total of 95,134 schoolchildren in 882 schools have been fed in Plateau State.

“Delta and Abia states recorded 742 schools each, with 141,663 and 61,316 schoolchildren fed respectively.

“With the commencement of a new academic session in September, it is expected that more schools will benefit from the programme, as more states would be added to the list, in line with the Federal Government target that 5.5 million schoolchildren would be fed by the end of 2017”.

 

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  1. seyi jelili

    September 26, 2017 at 8:02 am

    I will continue to say that this free feeding of a thing is nonsense, instead of free feeding while not free education so everyone could afford going to school because the people in charge of this free feeding of a thing are making merchandise of the policy to enrich themselves, the food they dish out is of low quality, reverse the policy

    • JOHNSON PETER

      September 26, 2017 at 8:23 am

      I would supported your views but mind you, food is essential for growth as well, there are many families who can’t afford giving food to their children, so let them continue the free feeding, then they can couple it with free education.

      • yanju omotodun

        September 26, 2017 at 8:44 am

        Except our late chief Obafemi Awolowo who introduced free education in the western part of Nigeria, since then, no free education initiative again, all our political parties do not include free education as part of their manifestos and we don’t bulge. It’s well

  2. Animashaun Ayodeji

    September 26, 2017 at 11:57 am

    The federal government knows Nigerians are very hungry, I think the free feeding should be extended to the general public, so we can at least thank this government for doing one thing for Nigerians

    • Abeni Adebisi

      September 26, 2017 at 12:59 pm

      Honestly, that will be better. They will call it operation feed the Nation, it will be a great achievement and a substitute to economic woes facing the country. If free food is out of it, Nigerians won’t complain too much

      • Anita Kingsley

        September 26, 2017 at 1:48 pm

        Keep deceiving yourselves, this government has nothing to offer. The government that cannot successfully feed NYSC youths, how can you expect it to feed millions of school children, let alone the whole Nigeria? Wake up from your slumber

  3. Anita Kingsley

    September 26, 2017 at 1:15 pm

    Are we now supposed to be thanking God for giving us APC? This is not an achievement as far as I am concerned, this government should stop using the media to broadcast their worthless activities. How many of the children are well fed? yet they are claiming to be feeding them

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