The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiyya Umar Farouq, has said that the Federal Government will enrol an additional 5 million pupils into its National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, (NHGSFP), by 2023.
The expected new intakes are to add to the existing over 9 million pupils, who are already benefiting from the programme.
The Special Assistant to the Minister on Corporate Communications, Mrs. Halima Oyelade, said yesterday, that the Minister disclosed this during a stakeholders meeting for the enumeration of beneficiaries and scaling-up of the NHGSFP in Zamfara State.
She further explained that the NHGSFP was designed as a multi-faceted intervention to drive up school enrollment, boost the nutrition of the pupils, support local production of food and encourage employment and income generation.
Specifically, it is aimed at the provision of one nutritious meal to all pupils in public primary schools in classes one to three, she added.
The NHGSFP is a government-led N70 per day school feeding programme that aims to improve the health and educational outcomes of public primary school pupils.
