Jubilation as Tinubu Reintroduces School Feeding Programme

• The old good days in public schools across the country seem to have turned with the reintroduction of the school feeding programme.
• President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said the reintroduction is to address the challenges of out-of-school children
• Tinubu also said the school feeding programme will help in checking the learning crisis in the country

Legit.ng journalist Adekunle Dada has over 5 years of experience covering metro and government policy

State House, Abuja - President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reintroduced the school feeding programme.

Tinubu reintroduced the programme to address the challenges of out-of-school children, Daily Trust reported.

The Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, disclosed this during a one-day retreat on quick wins in the middle Ministerial deliverables from 2023 to 2027.

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This development occurred after ex-President Muhammadu Buhari’s government suspended the programme.

The President said the school feeding programme will help in checking the learning crisis.

Tinubu said it will be difficult to address the challenges of out-of-school children if the learning crisis is not tackled.

Children, teachers lament as FG's school feeding programme suffers setback

Legit.ng earlier reported that the effort to keep children in school through the federal government's school feeding programme seems to be having a hard time with vendors failing to show up in the different schools.

schools across states like Benue, Akwa Ibom, Egun, Kano, Cross Rivers, Bauchi and Ogun were experiencing downtime with the programme as vendors have failed to turn up because of non-payment of their funds.

It was gathered that the vendors have completely stopped providing food for the schools even though their operations were never consistent in the first place.

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School feeding programme: FG targets 14 million students

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that the federal government in July 2021 disclosed that it is targeting to feed 14 million school children under the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) by 2023.

The former minister of humanitarian Affairs, disaster management and social development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, stated this in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.

10m pupils currently benefiting from FG’s feeding programme

Farouq declared that no fewer than 10 million pupils are benefiting from the school feeding programme across the country.

The minister disclosed this on Tuesday, May 25, during the flag-off of the nationwide distribution of utensils under the NHGSFP.

She said that the federal government is totally committed to the initiative which recently resumed after the COVID-19 pandemic break.

Source: Legit.ng