More states receive funding for homegrown school feeding, payment of N-Power beneficiaries in varying stages of progress in 34 states, Payment of conditional cash transfer in pilot states continues;
As the Buhari administration proceeds with the implementation of social Investment Programmes, the Federal Government has now released over N375 million this year to feed almost 700,000 primary school pupils in 5 states, while virtually all States of the federation, except two, are now being processed for the payment of N30,000 monthly stipends to 200,000 graduates, the N-Power Beneficiaries.
Giving a Media Update in Abuja on Sunday, the Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity to the President, Office of the Vice President, Mr. Laolu Akande said the Buhari Social Investment Programmes, SIP, are proceeding at different stages of implementation.
According to him, regarding the Homegrown School Feeding Programme, The Federal Government last week released money for the year, to the States of Anambra, Ogun, Oyo, Osun and Ebonyi to cover the feeding for 10 school days.
The sum of about N375,434,870 has just been released and paid to 7,909 cooks in those States for the feeding of a total of 677,476 primary school pupils.
The SSA Media in the Presidency gave the following breakdown:
Ogun State got a total of N119,648,900 paid to 1.381 cooks to feed 170,927 pupils.
Ebonyi State got N115,218,600 paid to 1,466 cooks to feed 164,598 pupils.
Anambra State got N67.5m paid to 937 cooks to feed 103,269 pupils.
Oyo State got N72.2m paid to 1437 cooks to feed 103,269 pupils.
Osun State got N867,370 paid to 2688 to feed 142,193 pupils.
All monies are paid directly to the cooks and cover 10 days of school.
Later this week, Akande further disclosed those figures would go up when Zamfara and Enugu States are expected to be paid N188.7 million and N67.2 million respectively.
In Zamfara, the sum would be paid to 2,738 cooks to feed 269,665 pupils. And in Enugu, the sum would be paid to 1128 cooks to feed 96,064 pupils.
By then, he noted that over N631 million would have been fed.
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