Federal government will today lunch the school feeding programme, which is expected to ensure the feeding of over 24 million primary school children, would have each of the children given one meal per day in the first year of its operation.

The scheme is part of the N500 billion social investment plans of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidency, even as both the federal and state governments are expected to review the strategic plan for the scheme.

The event is billed to hold at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Some dignitaries expected to be in attendance include governors of Borno, Oyo, Osun, Enugu and Kaduna states, and other government representatives and stakeholders from 36 states of the federation and developmental partners.

According to a statement from the Office of the Acting President, the strategic plans will run until 2020 and forms the cornerstone of the nationwide Home Grown School Feeding programme.
The statement added that “the Federal Government is working with key technical partners to capitalize upon global experience and adopt best practices.”

One such partner is the UK’s Imperial College, London’s Partnership for Child Development, PCD, which is providing technical assistance to the Presidency. The scheme is to help pupils become better students, and also boost the local economies, and create new jobs along the way.
Beside the strategic plan, Osinbajo would also launch the “Global School Feeding Sourcebook: Lessons from 14 countries,” a joint Partnership for Child Development, the World Bank and World Food Programme analysis of national school feeding programmes from across the globe.


http://www.financialwatchngr.com/2016/06/09/fg-school-feeding-programme-launch-today/

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Alhamdulillah

Good move, I love this kind of news it gives hope to the hopeless nigerians, I pray that days of stagnant progress are over in nigeria

Good move, I love this kind of news it gives hope to the hopeless nigerians, I pray that days of stagnant progress are over in nigeria.

I think Bahari should extend his vacation,the acting president is acting.

The wind of change is blowing..............We shall get there!

Lanretoye:
I think Bahari should extend his vacation,the acting president is acting.

Please, don't sound like an infant. There are processes and timing. The absence of PMB has nothing to do with commencement of the programme. They simply have to put things together and marshal out a strategy. The VP cannot approve a milestone programme without the endorsement of his boss.

I just hoped that the pupil won't dessert school after eating their meals.

God Bless PMB


God Bless PYO


God Bless NGR

Lanretoye:
I think Bahari should extend his vacation,the acting president is acting.

Its just the timing factor!

Suffocating Zombies seem to be having little air to breathe.

naijaboy756:
Suffocating Zombies WAILERS seem to be having little air to breathe.

fixed

In Buhari's absence everything seems to be gettin better, experiencing some positive change.The old man should remain in london permanently till 2019, infact his cows and sheeps should be send to london so he can continue rearing them overthere

Food wey headmaster's and headmistress'es of various schools will hijack and divert into family business. No be Naija we dey?
Corruption is everywhere. Hope it lasts.

Pls bubuhari jst remain where u are u are cursed in ur absence d acting president has started wat u should have been doing yeye president

Good scheme if it can achieve its aim. I know this will bring many strayed away students back to school. Nigeria is getting better, however,

Light

Water

Creation of Jobs


Infrastructural developments

And others things that make life easier should be given priority too

Abeymills:
Pls bubuhari jst remain where u are u are cursed in ur absence d acting president has started wat u should have been doing yeye president

it's obvious who is actually cursed.

Am I the only one who doesn't buy into this stupid feeding idea ? Why feed school children when they don't even have chairs to sit on and materials to write with, Talk about misplaced priorities


Besides, where will the money come from? Is it sustainable? Remember the failed state of Osun

Lanretoye:
I think Bahari should extend his vacation,the acting president is acting.

pmb has done his part- which is planning, is time for v.p to do his part-which is launching of d plan, then implementation,

stanech:
Am I the only one who doesn't buy into this stupid feeding idea ? Why feed school children when they don't even have chairs to sit on and materials to write with, where will the money come from? Is it sustainable? Remember the failed state of Osun

d 500b naira ur ineffectual buffoon and his gang use to corner to their pocket every year is enof to substain d program

Mylove55:
d 500b naira ur ineffectual buffoon and his gang use to corner to their pocket every year is enof to substain d program

Yea but that doesn't mean we need to start feeding kids. How about cutting taxes and providing electricity so companies can grow and provide more jobs.

you are not making sense dude.

dayo23:
In Buhari's absence everything seems to be gettin better, experiencing some positive change.The old man should remain in london permanently till 2019, infact his cows and sheeps should be send to london so he can continue rearing them overthere

naijaboy756:
Suffocating Zombies seem to be having little air to breathe.

and u saTANist ipod wailers wil never be happy for any good thing

Good development, hope ll be able to manage it properly till d end. A principal diverting oranges meant for school children as little as his grandchildren makes me shudder. Though am optimistic that Nigeria ll be great again.

Everybody thinking dis programme will fail should keep their worries, it will succeed because there is already a template, State of Osun is already running the programme n it's very successful without being hijacked by the school teachers.

valslove8715:
Good development, hope ll be able to manage it properly till d end. A principal diverting oranges meant for school children as little as his grandchildren makes me shudder. Though am optimistic that Nigeria ll be great again.

the way it is being done in Osun, the teachers don't av any influence on d food vendors.

stanech:


Yea but that doesn't mean we need to start feeding kids. How about cutting taxes and providing electricity so companies can grow and provide more jobs.

it's actually one of unicef's programme which they brought to Nigeria in 2007 n started with 7 stares but it's only sustained by Osun. And it's wat is being done in developed countries. One of d benefits is dat it brings more foreign partnership n foreign aid.

K