Home Grown Feeding: FG to Bump Pupils Number by Additional 5 million -FAROUQ
Daily Rendezvous The Hon. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has announced that the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme will soon be up-scaled to capture an additional 5 million pupils to the already 9 million benefitting pupils, thus bumping up the number of benefitting students to about 14 million Pupils across the country. Sadiya Farouq, made the declaration during a courtesy call to the Niger state governor, Abubakar Bello, in Minna, Niger State. Farouq who was Represented by Hezekiah Sunday, Assistant Director in the Ministry, was received by the Secretary to the State Government, Ahmed Matane, said, she was in the state to assess the implementation of National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSF) and to also make a comprehensive assessment of the pupils enrolled in the school feeding programme in the state. Farouq said, "We are here in Niger State on the strength of o...