Giving an update in Abuja on Sunday, January 22, the senior uncommon collaborator on Media and Publicity to the VP, Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande additionally revealed that government a week ago discharged cash during the current year school nourishing project. The cash has been given to Anambra state, Ogun state, Oyo state, Osun state and Ebonyi state to cover the nourishing for 10 school days.
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Below is the breakdown of the school feeding fund:
1. Ogun state got a total of N119, 648, 900 paid to 1.381 cooks to feed 170, 927 pupils.
2. Ebonyi state got N115, 218, 600 paid to 1.466 cooks to feed 164, 598 pupils.
3. Anambra state got N67.5m paid to 937 cooks to feed 96,489 pupils.
4. Oyo state got N72.2m paid to 1437 cooks to feed 103, 269 pupils.
5. Osun state got N867,370 paid to 2688 to feed 142, 193 pupils.
The vice president's aide said: “All monies are paid directly to the cooks and cover 10 days of school. In Zamfara, the sum would be paid to 2,738 cooks to feed 269, 665 pupils. And in Enugu, the sum would be paid to 1128 cooks to feed 96, 064 pupils... By then, he noted that over N631 million would have been released so far in 2017 for school feeding in 7 States, paid to 11,775 cooks and meant to feed over One million primary school pupils-exact number of pupils by then would be 1, 043, 205.”
According to him, later this week, those figures would go up when Zamfara and Enugu states were expected to be paid N188.7 million and N67.2 million respectively.
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