The Federal Government, on Tuesday, said it would spend N999 million daily to feed approximately 10 million pupils in the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme across the country.
The Team Lead of NHGSFP, Aishatu Digil, disclosed this at a stakeholders' meeting on disbursement modalities for the review of the cost of feeding in the programme in Abuja.
She said the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, got the approval of spending N100 per person daily on the feeding in the
programme.
She said 9,990,862 pupils from primary one to three in the programme would now be fed with
N100 daily for 20 days in a month, which would amount to N999,086,200 million daily.
"Prior to this, we were feeding school children with N70 per child, per meal. This was since 2016, but the President has approved N100
upward review.
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