PHOTO:FG to provide Nigerian school children with 1bn eggs, which is part of is school feeding programme
The federal government to kick start
its feeding programme by releasing over 1billion naira for eggs to be
distributed to schools around the country.
While speaking to news men, Minister
of
Information Mr. Lai Hohammed, said:
“The first is the employment of
500,000 unemployed graduates, the second is the employment of 100,000 non
graduates, technicians and artisans. The third is the one meal a day program
me targeting 5.5 million pupils all over Nigeria. This is the most exciting of all our programmes. Even if we are going to give these children one egg a day, it means we will need 5.5 million eggs and in a calendar year of 200 days, we will need over a billion eggs. You can imagine what this will do to agriculture.
“We have the enterprise scheme which
is a system of revolving loan. We are targeting one million market women and
men, 460,000 artisans and technicians and 200,000 agricultural workers to be
given loans through their cooperatives to start their own businesses.
We have
the N5,000 conditional cash transfers to one million most vulnerable Nigerians
as a first phase. Then finally, we have bursaries, scholarships for all
students in Nigeria studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics.”
National Chairman of the party,
Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, said such meetings would be convened on a regular
basis so party members would understand government’s policy.
He said:
Change is a process, it is not an event, not something that happens the day after the government was sworn-in.”
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