Nigeria’s vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, has said the government’s Homegrown School Feeding Programme is currently catering for over 9 million school children in 31 states of Nigeria. Osinbajo made the disclosure at a town hall meeting with some members of the Nigerian community in New York. “And we have found that as a result of this programme, school enrolment figures have gone up significantly,” Osinbajo said. Osinbajo explained that the Social Investment Programmes was one of the ways highlighted to address the problem of poverty in Nigeria when President Muhammadu Buhari administration first assumed office in 2015. He opined that previous Nigeria governments had never systematically addressed the poverty problem in the way that India, which used to have the largest population of poor people did.

Source: The Guardian June 25, 2019 14:03 UTC