FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Aliyu, on Friday, disclosed that 120,300 pupils across the six Area Councils would benefit from the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme in the FCT. She said that the programme was designed to improve the health and educational outcomes of public primary school pupils. According to her, the programme will link local farmers to the education sector by facilitating their access to the school feeding market. “The programme is targeting about 120,300 pupils that will be drawn from 626 public primary schools across the six Area Councils of the FCT. Farouk also stated that the National Home Grown School Feeding programme was one of the four cardinal programmes of National Social Investment Programme.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 31, 2020 13:52 UTC