President Tinubu reintroduces school feeding program
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed that school feeding program be reintroduced to address the challenges of out-of-school children.
It could be recalled that former President Muhammadu Buhari’s government had suspended the program after many years of running it.
But Tinubu ordered its restoration, saying it will help in checking learning crisis.
He said if learning crisis is not tackled, it will be difficult to address the challenges of out-of-school children.
Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, disclosed this at a one-day retreat on quick wins in the middle Ministerial deliverables from 2023 to 2027.
Prof Mamman said the president directed that the school feeding program be removed from the Ministry of Humanitarian and returned to the Ministry of Education.
He said the essence of the retreat was to find ways of implementing all the policies developed to tackle the challenges and to distil responsibility to different agencies responsible for overturning the out of school children problem.
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