FG applauds FCMB, as Bank Donates School Feeding Portal to Government

Group photo taken during the visit.

The Acting President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has commended First City Monument Bank (FCMB) for showing a strong commitment and support to the development of Nigeria through strategic partnerships with the public and private sectors over the years.The commitment, he emphasised, has gone a long way to strengthen government’s efforts towards enhancing the well-being of the country and the citizenry.

The Acting President gave the commendation during a visit by the Management of the Bank on May 30, 2017 to the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The visit provided an opportunity for the Bank's management to formally donate to the Federal Government a robust Home grown School Feeding (HGSF) programme web portal developed by the Bank for deployment nationwide.

The Office of the Vice President is in charge of this social investment programme, which was launched in July 2016. It is currently running in several states and when fully operational in all the 36 states, over 24 million school children will benefit from it thereby making it the largest school feeding programme in Africa. Professor Osinbajo specifically hailed FCMB, ‘’for being proactive and demonstrating tremendous interest towards the success of the HGSF programme. From what I have seen, this portal is an excellent initiative and the Bank should be commended not just for this, but for being a partner in progress over the years’’.

Speaking during the visit, the Managing Director of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Mr. Adam Nuru, explained that the Bank decided to take the lead in developing the HGSF portal in further demonstration of its value as a helpful financial institution committed to delivering exceptional services that create life changing opportunities.

He pointed out that the portal acts as an information hub which aids remote monitoring and evaluation from the Vice President’s Office, thereby giving access to data that includes but is not limited to the number of people employed in the value chain, the menu on state by state basis, the impact of the programme on agricultural production, and ultimately, the overall health and well-being of the benefitting children. These factors combined will ensure effective tracking of the success or shortcomings of the project on a state by state basis.