FG trains independent monitors for effective implementation of N-SIP in Kogi FG trains independent monitors for effective implementation of N-SIP in Kogi
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The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has employed and trained some youth volunteers to monitor the impacts of the integrated National Social Investment Programmes (N-SIP) on the people of Kogi State.
The Minister of the humanitarian ministry, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, at the training venue in Lokoja, urged the participants to pay rapt attention to all aspects of the training.
The volunteers are youths and individuals drawn from all the wards of the local government they represent, known as “Independent Monitors.”
96,666 pupils to benefit free school feeding programme in Kwara 96,666 pupils to benefit free school feeding programme in Kwara
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Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSFP) of the federal government will take care of about 96,666 pupils from primary 1 to 3 in Kwara State public schools.
Speaking at a day training programme for 100 Independent Monitors recruited for the programme, expected to start soon, the state Focal Person for the National Social Investments Programmes (NSIP), Hajia Bashira Abdulrazaq-Sanusi, said that no fewer than 4,500 rural women food vendors have been medically screened for the school feeding programme.
She said that the federal government had designed the programme to feed Primary one to three pupils while Kwara State government would provide free meal for pupils in Primary four to six.
[FILES] Sadiya Umar Farouq. Photo: TWITTER/sadiyafarouqNo fewer than 4,000 rural women in Niger have received N80 million under the Federal Government Special Cash Grant Project for rural women, a statement from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has said.
The statement issued on Saturday in Abuja by Mrs Nneka Anibeze, the Special Assistant on Media to the Minister, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, said the beneficiaries were selected from the 25 local government areas of the state. x
Farouq explained that the grant was part of the social protection programmes of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration aimed at uplifting the most vulnerable groups out of poverty.
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School Feeding: Kwara begins medical screening for 4500 food vendors
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By Demola Akinyemi
Kwara State Government on Monday began a week long medical screening exercise for 4500 food vendors ahead of official take off of its Home Grown School Feeding Programme.
“We are screening 4500 food vendors across the 16 local government areas for students of primary 1-6. The federal government will take care of primary 1-3 students while the state government will take care of primary 4-6 students,” Kwara State Focal Persons for the National Social Investment Programme Hajia Bashirah AbdulRazaq said in a statement.
Hajia AbdulRazaq who said the exercise is in batches assured applicants that more food vendors would be invited for the medical screening.
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