President Muhammadu Buhari has spent more than ₦2 billion on free feeding for pupils in Adamawa, under the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme.
The debit cards were pre-loaded with N30,000 for the payment of the backlog of 2020 stipends.
“The president said he would talk to the minister of Humanitarian Affairs so that attention would be given to those who are displaced as a result of this crisis.”
FG has called on the Rivers government to key into President Muhammadu Buhari regime’s home-grown school feeding programme.
Buhari’s regime has spent over N1.8 billion to feed schoolchildren in Ondo, says the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.
Buhari’s regime says it employed 100,000 cooks to provide nine million schoolchildren with free meals, promising to feed an additional five million pupils by 2024.
The federal government says 36 million Nigerians benefited from its Community Social Development Project (CSDP).
Federal government says it has begun disbursing N70 million to 3,500 rural women and urban poor in Bauchi.
The decision was reached at Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting.
The women alleged that targeted beneficiaries were being replaced by “mainly family and friends of the officials and politicians.’’
