10m children to benefit from FG’s schools feeding programme

NO fewer than 10 million primary school pupils across the country are to benefit from the newly- introduced school feeding programme initiated by the Federal Government tagged “Buhari food for the children.” Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, said in an interview in Awka that while five million pupils from Primary 1 -3 would be catered for by the Federal Government under the programme, the states were expected to feed another five million from Primary 4 -6 through a counterpart funding programme.