FG to feed 50 million primary school pupils in 2026 – NSIPA

The Federal Government says it is moving to grow the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) to 50 cardinal superior schoolhouse pupils successful 2026.

Dr Aderemi Adebowale, National Programme Manager, National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA) disclosed this successful an interrogation with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) successful Abuja.

“We are moving to see aboriginal years — primary 1 to 3, superior 4 to 6 — in the schoolhouse feeding programme, and besides retired of schoolhouse children, which we are handling measurement by measurement to integrate.

“So, by the twelvemonth 2026, we are looking astatine feeding adjacent to 50 cardinal pupils successful superior schoolhouse successful Nigeria.

“Ideally, schoolhouse feeding should beryllium betwixt N500 to N1,000 per child.

“Even astatine N500 per child, you should beryllium capable to inactive springiness the children a nutritious and delicious repast connected a regular basis,” she said.

Adebowale added that the bureau controlled the terms done the enactment of the alignment of small-holder farmers, aggregators, proviso concatenation and processing partners.

“With this alignment, we’ll beryllium capable to power terms from the stone bottom. We are not going to beryllium doing marketplace prices.

“So, we person to hold connected prices from our suppliers, agri-vendor and farmers to get astatine a tenable outgo per plate.

Once we bash that, we volition follow-up connected the outgo and work delivery,” she said.

NAN recalls that connected May 27, 2025, the Federal Government inaugurated the Alternate Education and Renewed Hope National Home-Grown School Feeding Project, aiming to supply meals for 20 cardinal out-of-school and underserved children by 2026.

The inaugural was inaugurated successful Abuja by the erstwhile Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda.

Yilwatda is the existent National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Party.

The programme was rolled retired done the Renewed Hope National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (RH-NHGSFP), successful concern with the National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School Children Education and the National Identity Management Commission.

Yilwatda had highlighted the programme arsenic 1 of the cardinal components of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), introduced to people President Bola Tinubu’s 2nd twelvemonth successful office.

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