Kano State Gov Abdullahi Ganduje, says that Federal Government spends N1.5 billion monthly on school feeding programmes in the state.<\/p>\n
Ganduje stated this on Tuesday while playing host to the technical committee on the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSF) who visited him in is office in Kano.<\/p>\n
The governor said the state has the highest population in the country and also the highest number of public schools.<\/p>\n
He said that his administration operates a free and compulsory education system, while Almajiri education has also been integrated into the basic education system.<\/p>\n
The governor said, \u201cin view of the above, pupils enrollment keep increasing more than in any other state of the federation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen education is made free and compulsory, the number of pupils will definitely increase, even if you cannot afford it because it is made compulsory,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Speaking earlier, the state Commissioner of Education, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi-Kiru, said that the state currently has 1.2 million pupils benefitting from the school feeding programme.<\/p>\n
He appealed for validation of data of the beneficiaries to over two million, saying that pupils enrollment keep increasing across the state.<\/p>\n
commissioner said that the state has a total of 12, 258 food vendors, who are also beneficiaries of the programme.<\/p>\n
According to him, each cook receives N82,000 every 16 days to prepare food for the pupils in primaries one to three in the state.<\/p>\n
The Northwest Coordinator of NHGSF, Alhaji Mansur Kuliya, said the team was in Kano for enumeration and data capturing of pupils benefitting from the programme.<\/p>\n
“We are in Kano to bring more Nigerians under the umbrella of the government social protection mechanism by scaling up the number of pupils benefitting from the programme.<\/p>\n
\u201cCurrently, over nine million pupils are benefitting from one free nutrition meal daily during school term nationwide.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd now, we have the mandate to register additional 5 million pupils by 2023,\u201dhe said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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