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President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja warned that stoking ethnic and religious prejudices will not augur well for the development of the country, adding that his administration will continue to create the enabling environment for religious freedom as guaranteed by the Nigerian Constitution.
Speaking when the leadership of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) led by its President-General and Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, paid him a courtesy call, President Buhari said:
“The Federal Government will continue to promote religious freedom as it is a constitutional responsibility. I must thank the Muslim ummah for promoting inter-religious dialogue in the country. It is self-evident that if the country must work, we must continue to work together in spite of our ethnic, religious and political differences because Nigeria is our collective project.
WFP Eswatini Country Brief, December 2020
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US$ 4.9 million cash-based transfers made between January and December 2020
US$ 4.5 million six-month (January 2020-June 2021) net funding requirements
182,311 people assisted in December 2020
Operational Updates
• WFP provides social safety nets for 55,000 orphans and vulnerable children under 5 years at the 1,700 Neighbourhood Care Points (NCPs) in Eswatini through access to food and basic social services.
• WFP works with the Government in implementing a sustainable, nutrition-sensitive, shock-responsive national school meals programme. The Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) project started in September 2019, targeting 50 schools and 24,392 students. WFP works with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to empower local smallholder farmers to provide schoolchildren with food that is safe, diverse, nutritious and local.
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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.