The Director, National Orientation Agency (NOA) Niger State chapter, Hamza Audu revealed this in Minna, the Niger State capital during the visit of a monitoring team from the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management to the state for the enumeration of pupils and cooks, also known as vendors under the Home Grown School Feeding Programme of the federal government.

The Director, National Orientation Agency (NOA) Niger State chapter, Hamza Audu revealed this in Minna, the Niger State capital during the visit of a monitoring team from the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management to the state for the enumeration of pupils and cooks, also known as vendors under the Home Grown School Feeding Programme of the federal government.

Due to the resent worsening in insecurity that result into incessant attacks from bandits, has hindered the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), in Niger State, from posting corps members to 11 Local Government Areas out of the 25 in the state for primary assignment and other community development activities in the area.

The Director, National Orientation Agency (NOA) Niger State chapter, Hamza Audu revealed this in Minna, the Niger State capital during the visit of a monitoring team from the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management to the state for the enumeration of pupils and cooks, also known as vendors under the Home Grown School Feeding Programme of the federal government.

According to the state NOA Director, the NYSC decided not post the corps members to 11 local governments susceptible to bandits’ attacks in order not to endanger their lives.

He said, “We are using the locals in concerned schools, who are conversant with their environment in order not to put the lives of NYSC members at risk.”

Also, Hajiya Fatima Bisalla, who led the monitoring team from the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management told journalists that the visit was to enable the Ministry produce data on the beneficiaries of the Programme in the State.

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