President Muhammadu Buhari has earmarked N500 billion for school feeding programme initiatives, conditional cash transfer to most vulnerable and post-National Youth Service Corps grant.
This was contained in proposal for the 2016 budget MTEF submitted to the National Assembly by the Presidency.
It was dated November 8.
It reads in part: “The Federal government will collaborate with state governments to institute well-structured social welfare intervention programme such as : school feeding programme initiatives, conditional cash transfer to the most Vulnerable, and post NYSC grant.
“N5000 billion has been provisioned in the 2016 budget as social investments for these programmes. These intervention will start as a pilot scheme and work towards securing the support donor agencies and our development partners in order to minimize potential risks.”
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