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Enugu Approves School Feeding For Pupils In Primary 1-3

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Enugu State government has taken another giant stride to ensure quality and affordable education through the provision of one free meal daily for its pupils in primary one to three.

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of the state who inaugurated a steering committee to drive this free meal project yesterday stated that his administration was not only committed to move education to the next level but that it would make the development projects in the sector sustainable.

Prof. Uche Eze who is the state commissioner for education heads the steering committee and explained during the inauguration that the introduction of the single free meal daily for pupils in primary one to three would stimulate sustained attention by the pupils as well as encourage school farming since the feeding is home-grown based.

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FG Votes N500bn For Unemployed Graduates, School Feeding

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President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday sent the Medium Term Expenditure Frame- work (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) to the National Assembly with N500 billion voted to pay unemployed Nigerian graduates and feed school children amongst other social welfare programmes in the N6.07 trillion budget for 2016.

Buhari said “phased” social welfare programmes will be created to cater for a large population of the poorest and most vulnerable Nigerians upon the evidence of children’s enrolment in school and evidence of immunization.

In other 2016 votes, N63.29 billion was voted for subsidy (including N150 billion for 2015 arrears); N20 billion for the Presidential Amnesty Programme in 2016, down from N47.39 billion voted in 2015, and N39.88 billion voted for Frontier Exploration Services – to prospect for oil in the Chad Basin.

The National Assembly budget was slashed from N120 billion in 2015 to N115 billion in 2016.

In new borrowings, the federal government proposed N1.2 trillion (domestic) and N635 billion (foreign) borrowing, totalling N1.835.88 trillion in 2016.

According to the MTEF/FSP, the federal government recovered N350.33 billion in misappropriated funds which will be injected into the 2016 budget.

The recoveries include N137.90 billion (refunds/recoveries from Strategic Alliance Contracts); N162.43 billion (NNPC/CBN) and other recoveries which amount to N50 billion.

The MTEF/FSP is the precursor to the budget itself, as provided in the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA).

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FG To Fund Unemployment Allowance, School Feeding With TSA

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The Federal Government plans to fund the N5,000 monthly allowance for 25 million unemployed youths and the free school feeding programme from the Treasury Single Account.

It was learnt that despite dwindling oil revenue, the government believed that some money that would have gone into private pockets because of the uncoordinated and multiple bank accounts operated by government agencies, would be saved through the TSA and be spent on the purpose.

A source in the Presidency said on Tuesday that funds that would be freed through the gains that would be derived from the TSA, domiciled in the Central Bank of Nigeria, would be used for the well-being of Nigerians and the social safety net would be one of such programmes.

“This government is saving funds that, in the past, ended up in personal pockets through the TSA. These funds will come handy for this programme,” the source said.

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