Nigeria: School Feeding Programme Reaches 17 States - Presidency

24 October 2017

Abuja — Three more states have been added to the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, with an additional one million children now benefitting from it. They are Cross River, Akwa Ibom and Niger states.

According to a statement by the spokesman of the Vice President, Laolu Akande, this brings to 17 the number of states currently participating in the School Feeding Programme, a crucial part of President Muhammadu Buhari administration's Social Investment Programmes, SIP, aimed at tackling poverty and hunger, as well as creating jobs for Nigerians.

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