The presidency on Saturday gave
an update of Nigerian government programmes such as N-Power, Conditional Cash
Transfer, School Feeding Programme, among others.
A statement by, Laolu Akande,
Senior Special Assistant on Media to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, said over
246 million (246,355,190) meals had been served to primary pupils across 20
states in the country, since the first meal served in December 2016 under the
National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP).
He noted that the total figure
was expected to reach 313,928,420 meals by the last week of February 2018.
According to him, the School
Feeding Programme now fed 6,044,625 pupils in 33,981 public primary schools
across 20 states.
”More states are expected to be
added to the programme this year. The NHGSFP plans to implement feeding in a
total of 28 States, while it aims to link farmers to school feeding markets.
”In the same vein, several
milestones were recorded by the Buhari administration’s National Social
Investment Programmes (NSIP) in 2017, in line with its inclusive growth plan,
which includes tackling poverty and hunger, and creating jobs for Nigerians.
“About 40,000 direct jobs have
since been created from the School Feeding Programme across the participating
states. The 20 states that have so far been covered by the NHGSFP include
Anambra, Enugu, Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ebonyi, Zamfara, Delta, Abia, Benue, Plateau,
Bauchi, Taraba, Kaduna, Akwa-Ibom, Cross River, Imo, Jigawa, Niger, and
Kano,” he said.
The statement further disclosed
that the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) has so far recorded over 280,000
beneficiaries in 21 states, while about 300,000 Government Enterprise
Empowerment Programme (GEEP) micro-credit, interest-free loans have been
disbursed nationwide.
It stated that the N-power
scheme, which is targeted at providing jobs for unemployed young graduates,
started its physical verification process for the 2017 applicants.
”In 2018, more beneficiaries
are expected to be added to about 200,000 young graduates currently employed
under the scheme.
”A total of N900 billion was
appropriated for the SIPs in 2016 and 2017; with N500 billion appropriated for
2016 and N400 billion appropriated for 2017.
”However, the total amount
released was N110 billion for 2016 and 2017, with the total expenditure of N109
billion,” it said.
The statement also gave a
breakdown of the N109 billion released between October 2016 and November 2017
for the SIPs, namely: GEEP, CCT, NHGSFP, N-power, and general expenditure.
”The GEEP expenditure was
N11,700,200,466, while the CCT gulped N5,235,401,087.
”In the same vein, between
October 2016 and November 2017, N22,370,719,017 was expended for the Home-grown
School Feeding Programme (HGSFP); while N69,731,256,122 was expended on
N-power, which is the Job Creation component of the SIP, during the same
period.”
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