FEDERAL Government will commence its National Home Grown School Feeding Programme in September with 5.5 million school pupils across the country.
The National Programme Manager for the scheme, Mrs. Abimbola Adesanmi, disclosed this at a stakeholders’ workshop on the Ogun State Home Grown School Feeding Programme, held in Abeokuta, the state capital, Wednesday, adding that the project would be in phases and will kick-start with pupils from primary one to three, and to be followed by others subsequently…
Mrs Adesanmi also said that the federal government will play a big brother to willing and ready states by providing oversight and technical support to enable them carry on with the scheme without much hassles.
“The FG is providing oversight and also supporting the states with technical assistance to strengthen the structure that exists in the states. They federal government is providing funds to feed pupils in primary 1-3 as a start -up.
“For this year, it is beginning with 5.5 million pupils and with increase in enrolment, we may go beyond that. But that is what we plan for now”, Adesanmi said.