The President Bola Tinubu’s administration has reintroduced the school feeding programme to public schools across the country.
Recall that the school feeding programme, meant to address the challenges of out-of-school children was suspended by former President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.
The Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, who disclosed this during a one-day retreat on quick wins in the middle Ministerial deliverables from 2023 to 2027, said if learning crisis is not tackled, it will be difficult to address the challenges of out of school children.
According to the minister, the president directed that the school feeding programme be removed from Ministry of Humanitarian and returned to the Ministry of Education.
The Minister 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.
