Actually, I'm writing/asking this in response to the issue of Pupils being hospitalised after eating government food https://www.nairaland.com/7938563/18-pupils-hospitalised-after-eating....

Is it the responsibility of State Government to feed Pupils in schools?
Now, if State Government are feeding them, do they feeds Students of "State Government Secondary Schools"? Or is it only nursery and primary that are hungry?

Because the amount of money going into feeding pupils actually amounts to Millions of Naira gotten from Tax payers money, and not all Tax payers children attend government schools...

Your opinion matters here please...

I’ll put it as constant reminder to my kid never to eat anything from anyone at school. Fxck the government too

TimT:
Actually, I'm writing/asking this in response to the issue of Pupils being hospitalised after eating government food https://www.nairaland.com/7938563/18-pupils-hospitalised-after-eating....

Is it the responsibility of State Government to feed Pupils in schools?
Now, if State Government are feeding them, do they feeds Students of "State Government Secondary Schools"? Or is it only nursery and primary that are hungry?

Because the amount of money going into feeding pupils actually amounts to Millions of Naira gotten from Tax payers money, and not all Tax payers children attend government schools...

Your opinion matters here please...

Nigerians just copy results without knowing the process

Abroad school, road are maintained by a percentage of the district housing tax

In Europe you pay as much as 3% to 5% of the house value per year as tax... that's why rich neighborhood have better schools

you create a source yhen implement it

the funds for school feeding in Nigeria can feed Harvard University students alone per year

Even the public schools in Nigeria are dangerous let alone allowing my child to eat public food. Nigerians are the most wicked people on earth.



Somebody will pocket the money released for food and buy rubbish in the market to cook for the children.

Yes, it is right to support children in public primary schools with feeding as overwhelming majority of them are from very poor homes based on the fact that good nutrition supports healthy brain growth in children and increases better educational outcomes,

For those children who didn't choose the vulnerable family they were born into, they look forward to going to school because of that food and it is cheaper in the long run as it reduces the drop out rate at that basic level of education.

Nigeria can easily afford it, the key issue is the corruption that is being embedded in the various feeding programs. Let us assume a public primary school has 600 pupils and the feeding budget for each pupil is N500, that totals N300k per day and for the 5 school days in a week, it totals N1.5m weekly and for the 13 weeks of the school term it culminates at N19.5m.......for the 3 terms in an academic year, we can round it up at N60m for 600 children in one academic year.......while each senator got a SUV worth N160m!

mrvitalis:

Nigerians just copy results without knowing the process

Abroad school, road are maintained by a percentage of the district housing tax

In Europe you pay as much as 3% to 5% of the house value per year as tax... that's why rich neighborhood have better schools

you create a source yhen implement it

the funds for school feeding in Nigeria can feed Harvard University students alone per year

Baffles me how we think we can feed students with tax that is meant for infrastructural development and sustain this feeding policy

Mindlog:
Yes, it is right to support children in public primary schools with feeding as overwhelming majority of them are from very poor homes based on the fact that good nutrition supports healthy brain growth in children and increases better educational outcomes,

For those children who didn't choose the vulnerable family they were born into, they look forward to going to school because of that food and it is cheaper in the long run as it reduces the drop out rate at that basic level of education.

[/b]Nigeria can easily afford it[b], the key issue is the corruption that is being embedded in the various feeding programs. Let us assume a public primary school has 600 pupils and the feeding budget for each pupil is N500, that totals N300k per day and for the 5 school days in a week, it totals N1.5m weekly and for the 13 weeks of the school term it culminates at N19.5m.......for the 3 terms in an academic year, we can round it up at N60m for 600 children in one academic year.......while each senator got a SUV worth N160m!

NIGERIA CAN'T EASILY AFFORD IT...
Let's call a spade a spade, the country Nigeria is Poor... GDP per capita clearly shows that the citizens of the country are poor ..
And whether we accept it or not, majority of this overpopulated country are poor.. so now feeding pupils on school after giving them "Free education" is a clear sign of supporting the high population growth...
Other countries that feed and provide some free government support to citizens, their tax rate is very high...
Can we afford high taxation here?

Yes!

Otherwise the money would be embezzled anyway

TimT:

Baffles me how we think we can feed students with tax that is meant for infrastructural development and sustain this feeding policy

Nigeria elect people who have built nothing and expect them to build something

Taxing the people would generate revenue especially if tax is local and specific

They known that it would bring people attention to to governance and kill Tribalism

TimT:

NIGERIA CAN'T EASILY AFFORD IT...
Let's call a spade a spade, the country Nigeria is Poor... GDP per capita clearly shows that the citizens of the country are poor ..
And whether we accept it or not, majority of this overpopulated country are poor.. so now feeding pupils on school after giving them "Free education" is a clear sign of supporting the high population growth...
Other countries that feed and provide some free government support to citizens, their tax rate is very high...
Can we afford high taxation here?

Nigeria is "poor" but CAN EASILY AFFORD IT, resources are being wasted in fueling personal greed and massaging egos.