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| Acting President, YEMI OSINBAJO |
Acting President, YEMI OSINBAJO has inaugurated the Federal Government’s national Home-Grown School Feeding programme.
The event, which was held inside the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, was also witnessed by state governors including ABIOLA AJIMOBI , Oyo; RAUF AREGBESOLA, Osun; NASIR EL-RUFAI, Kaduna, and KASHIM SHETTIMA, Borno state.
The programme, which will benefit about 5.5 million primary school pupils in the first year of its operation, is part of the five hundred billion naira social investment plans of the present administration.
According to an overview of the scheme presented at the inauguration, the plan runs till 2020 and forms the cornerstone of the nationwide Home-Grown School Feeding programme which when fully realised will provide a meal a day to over twenty four million primary schoolchildren.
OSINBAJO stated at the inaugaration “Not only will the Home-Grown School Feeding programme help our pupils become better students, it will also boost the local economies, and create new jobs along the way.”
He said the government was working with states and local communities as well as those he described as technical partners for the successful implementation of the programme.
Osun state Governor, RAUF AREGBESOLA on his part states that Osun state feeds 252, 793 daily, whileEL-RUFAI disclosed that Kaduna State feeds 1.5million pupils every day
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