Inabo, however, pleaded not guilty to a 24-count amended charge dated October 12 shortly after it was read to him.
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Abdullahi was arraigned on a six-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N429,000.
The Chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts, Hon. Wole Oke, gave the clarification while addressing the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Olusola Idowu.
During the Coronavirus lockdown the government was providing food vouchers to families whose children qualify for free meals. But the UK Government had insisted that free meals would not continue outside of term time.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, announced this at the briefing of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 on Monday in Abuja.
The Federal Government is to verify number of primary schools presented by State Governments and the National Bureau of Statistics for the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has asked the Federal Government and Central Bank of Nigeria to “provide spending details of public funds and private sector donations to provide socio-economic benefits to the country’s poorest and most vulnerable people, including details of beneficiaries of any cash payments, cash transfers, food distribution and other benefits during the lockdown in Abuja; Lagos and Ogun states because of COVID-19.”
The Federal Government says no fewer than 9.9 million pupils are currently benefiting from its Home Grown School Feeding programme in 56,000 schools across the country.
Egbeyemi said the programme, expected to take off at the end of the month, will also provide employment opportunities for more people in the state.
The Federal Government on Monday began the screening exercise for about 750 food vendors to be engaged in the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme in Abuja Municipal Area Council.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, disclosed this on Tuesday, at the launch of a five-year cocoasoil project organised by CRIN in Ibadan, to improve cocoa production in Nigeria.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the programme which provides one meal per day to pupils in public primary school was introduced by President Muhammadu Buhari administration to boost enrolment and attendance in primary schools.
The Federal Government National Home Grown School Feeding Programme has trained 2, 746 food vendors in Nasarawa state to enhance the implementation of the initiative, an official has said.
The Federal Government says it is feeding 8.5 million children each school day under its school feeding programme across the country.
Beatrice Kitchener, the Taraba Focal Person for the programme, disclosed this to newsmen in Jalingo while reacting to reports of alleged sharp practices involving officials of the programme in the state.
Malam Ya’u Karkarku, the Education Secretary of the area told the News Agency of Nigeria in Sandamu on Friday that total pupils enrolment previously was between 60 per cent and 65 per cent, but has now jumped to about 92 per cent.
The Headmasters stated this when the National Social Investment Programme Focal Person in charge of Gombe State, Maryam Mele, visited their schools to monitor developments in the ongoing Home-Grown School Feeding Programme of the Federal Government.
A total of N6,643,432,789 billion have been disbursed by the Federal Government since the school feeding programme kicked off late last year, a statement from the Office of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), said on Monday