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Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s Vice President has revealed that about Nine Million school children are benefiting from the Federal Government’s school feeding programme daily.
He said currently, across the federation, the school children are served a meal per-day under the Home-Ground School Feeding programme.
The Vice President made this known on Tuesday at the 2020 Virtual Conference on Nutrition in Nigeria, organized by the Aisha Buhari Foundation in collaboration with development partners and was contained in a statement forwarded to DAILY POST by his spokesman, Laolu Akande.
He stated that President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration was making progress in tackling the problem of malnutrition in the country through the implementation of various intervention programmes and increased funding.
Osinbajo also disclosed that about 1.2 million Nigerians have benefitted from the federal government’s Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme.
According to Osinbajo: “The Social Investment Programmes (SIPs has also been helpful), “particularly the Home-Ground School Feeding Programme for public schools currently feeds over 9 million children across 34 states and the FCT, serving one nutritious meal every day.
“And our Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme that has provided cash transfers to about 1.2 million beneficiaries so far, to boost income.”
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