 The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadia Umar Farooq says the federal government will send about five million pupils into the national homegrown school program by 2023. Farooq made the disclosure while stakeholder during stakeholders meeting for the enumeration of beneficiaries and scaling up of the NHGSFP. This is contained in the statement by Halima Oyiladi, the Special Assistant Corporate Communications to the Minister on Friday in Abuja. She further explained that the program was designed as a facetide intervention to drive up school enrolment, boost nutrition, support a local production of food and encourage employment and income generation. She said that President Buhari's vision to fight abject poverty was behind the decision to set up the National Social Investment Program, which comprises of the NHGSFP, NPAR, Conditional Cash Transfer and Government Empowerment Program. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.