The Team Leader of NHGSFP, Aishatu Digil has disclosed at a stakeholders’ meeting on disbursement modalities for the review of cost of feeding of pupils at a program in Abuja.
She said the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, got the approval of spending N100 per person daily on the feeding in the programme.
She said 9,990,862 pupils from primary one to three in the programme would now be fed with N100 daily for 20 days in a month, as against the previous N70 daily, which would amount to N999,086,200 million daily.
She explained how the N100 will be spent which is; N70 for the cost of all food items except egg, N14 for cost of egg to be implemented through the state structures in partnership with the Poultry Association of Nigeria which will be given to pupils every Wednesday, N10 for cooks, N5 and N6 for micro-nutrient fortification, payable to cooks and N1 for quality assurance, payable to supervisors, which is optional.
