[b]says : Three million vulnerable households have received N75,000 each under the Renewed Hope Conditional Cash Transfer. A total of 396,000 students now benefit from tuition fee support through NELFUND. Over 250,000 MSMEs have received grants in 2025. The National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme continues to serve 9.8 million pupils across 53,000 schools, employing 200,000 local cooks and supporting thousands of smallholder farmers.
The Presidency has faulted a recent Daily Trust editorial as exaggerated, alarmist, and misleading, accusing the newspaper of distorting Nigeria’s economic situation and ignoring visible government efforts which have eradicated hardship across the country.
In a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communications, the Presidency said while it welcomes criticism from the media, such critiques must be grounded in context, and national patriotism.
It noted that the widely cited figure in the Daily Trust editorial, that 33 million Nigerians, including 16 million children, are at risk of hunger, was a worst-case scenario projected by the Cadre Harmonisé Food Security Analysis, not a current reality..
https://guardian.ng/news/presidency-faults-daily-trust-over-editorial-on-hunger-economy/
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