Revolutionizing education among who ....I guess the almajiris.

What a media propaganda !

bugidon:
bros with your sincere mind, is there any school feeding program in your state because am sure there is non in my region

Because you are lazy to make research

seunmsg:


What do you guys gain from lying? Just last week, we saw pictures of Osinbajo and Obiano with the cooks from Anambra state and you are still here denying the obvious.

Dont mind them, they too lazy to see

Provide good jobs for the parents...no need to feed their kids for them

i hope they should move it a step forward and build canteen for the kids.

bugidon:
Nothing like that crap for south east

guy stop disgracing yourself here. that programme is running full time in Abia state. It has increased enrollment. A pity trader close to our house don't sell sugar again because, according to her, pupils and students don't patronise her again as they are fed in school. Before now, when they dismiss from school, they go home, buy sugar and drink garri, and then wait for night meal.

We had something like this during our primary school days but we paid for it. The only time I benefited from the government free program was under Alliance for Democracy days free books and tuition free, then I was living with old soldier grandpa 1999 and it was only for a year as I graduated from college the same year...

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Buffalowings3:
Useless
Propaganda.


Sarrki buhariguy vedaxcool
If you so like the feedING programme, can you please send your kids to public primary schools

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They hate progress and celebrate evil and death.

Al jazera spread propaganda cos of what nah, thus sip program of this administration is going on smoothly.........no mago Mayo...let's commend the president for tht. But criticize him n d area of security

Terrorist network supporting their own

Now we have to depend on foreign media to report good news about our country because we hate our president so much that we want to everything possible to make him look bad

iHart:
guy stop disgracing yourself here. that programme is running full time in Abia state. It has increased enrollment. A pity trader close to our house don't sell sugar again because, according to her, pupils and students don't patronise her again as they are fed in school. Before now, when they dismiss from school, they go home, buy sugar and drink garri, and then wait for night meal.

Ok, D school feeding programme may be in Abia. But pls don't start paintning it like it's something that has transformed the educational system in Abia state. And again, school feeding is not good enough to give full support this this evil government yet.

At least something good coming out of Nigeria

they is none in umuahia ooo.... i have only seen one second hand danfo bus repainted with the feeding logo. picking passengers in the evening at a popular bus stop

seunmsg:


What do you guys gain from lying? Just last week, we saw pictures of Osinbajo and Obiano with the cooks from Anambra state and you are still here denying the obvious.

NOETHNICITY:
Now we have to depend on foreign media to report good news about our country because we hate our president so much that we want to everything possible to make him look bad

That is what a 'promise & fail' government gets when all it loves is propaganda.


Remeber APC did everything possible to make GEJ look bad. We all supported Buhari, but now we have all come to understand this government. All they do is lie lie and lie.

Sirjamo:
You won't see any lazy pdp youth here o.

Shut your trap old man, this is a paid propaganda and every sane person knows that.

seunmsg:


Can you name your region and let's verify your claim? The school feeding program covers all States in Nigeria.

bros, read the post again, its said the programme is available in 20 out of 36 states, in nigeria. its good policy, given that the govt 've impoverished the parents, so taking care of multiple kids in nijja is now a hard task. but providing basic infrastructure for effective learning & improoving teachers welfare, would 've been better.

seunmsg:
Abeokuta, Nigeria - Dozens of children cheer at the Baptist Nursery and Primary School compound in Bode-Ijaiye suburb of Abeokuta city, the capital of Ogun state, as their friends try to outpace each other on a 100-metre dash in a dusty field.


Ogun state inter-school football and track-and-field competitions are just around the corner, and teachers want to prepare the children physically and mentally for the task ahead.

Away from the laughter and shouts of encouragement on the field, four female cooks with aprons on top of traditional indigo-dyed adire gowns ladle porridge mixed with vegetables and fish into hundreds of stainless steel bowls with lids.

As the cooks ambled into a nearby classroom and began to place bowls on wooden desks, the 64 pupils remained quiet. After the dish was served, the students stood and began to sing "Bless this food O Lord for Christ sake Amen." Then they sat down and began to eat.

"I want to say a big thank you to the federal government of Nigeria and the Ogun state government for providing food for us," 10-year-old Ramon Samuel told Al Jazeera before opening the lid on his bowl.

Samuel and his classmates receive free meals every school day thanks to a national programme, which aims to provide nutritious meals to young schoolchildren in order to increase enrolment, help them stay in school, and reduce malnutrition, particularly among children from low-income families.

The Home Grown School Feeding initiative, a movement launched in 2003, is driven by national governments to improve the lives of schoolchildren and farmers alike. It is practised across the continent, including in Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Ethiopia, Namibia, Botswana, Ivory Coast, and South Africa.

The concept is not confined just to the continent as Brazil, Japan, and Italy have similar programmes aimed at keeping children fed while promoting local agriculture.

Though the scheme began in December 2016 in Nigeria, it is not entirely new here. Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo launched a pilot programme in 13 states in September 2005, but after a few years, only southwestern Osun state maintained it.

The plan was reintroduced by President Muhammadu Buhari in December 2016 as part of his administration's multi-million dollar National Social Investment Programmes to address poverty, hunger and unemployment in Nigeria.

The school programme operates in 20 out of Nigeria's 36 states and has fed nearly seven million pupils in about 40,000 public schools, the programme's manager Abimbola Adesanmi told Al Jazeera. She said more than 68,800 jobs have also been created through the initiative.

Knock-on effect
Adeleke Adewolu is the commissioner of special duties and inter-governmental affairs in Ogun state. He said the meals are not only nutritious but also serve as a "social safety net" for low-income households.

"If children eat nutritious food it will enhance their learning ability and this will have a knock-on effect on their cognitive development and help to encourage enrolment and retention," Adewolu said.

The programme provides income for thousands of people, including farmers, cooks recruited from local communities, and those involved in the processing and transportation of food, he said.

In Ogun, the coordinating team collaborated with the ministries of education, health, agriculture, women's affairs and community development to divide farmers into cooperative groups and link them to about 3,000 cooks who were trained and deployed to more than 1,500 schools. Farmers received training in seed quality and fertilisers to grow enough food to meet demand.

The cooks - who are responsible for procuring ingredients for the daily meals - are given a budget of 70 naira ($0.23) per child each day. With help from the state government, they received 57,000 naira ($188) in loans to purchase water drums, pots, bowls, uniforms, and cooking utensils.

"It gives me great joy to help in feeding the children in Baptist Primary School," said Omole Imoleayo, who left a career in banking to join the programme. "We receive our payment without delays and I have more time for my family now."

Sourcing foods locally helps millions of small farmers who produce up to 90 percent of Nigeria's food but are mired in grinding poverty.

"This has created a well-structured market for the farmers since they now know how much to produce and when it is needed," said Tinuola Shopeju, Ogun's programme manager.

Shopeju said the initiative is a "perfect model" for addressing food insecurity and improving local agricultural production in Nigeria, which imports about $20bn worth of food annually.

The menu differs daily and every state adopts its own meal schedule. In Ogun, schoolchildren get rice, stewed fish, and beans but also delicacies such as Ikokore - a dish made from water yam.

Deworming
Nigeria's programme also offers health services including deworming children in public primary schools across 17 states. Adesanmi said worms affect the health of schoolchildren, potentially causing anaemia, malnourishment, and the impairment of mental and physical development.

"In the short term, children with worms may be too sick or tired to attend school or to concentrate. Basically, we do not want to feed worms, rather children," she said.

Teachers in Ogun say the programme is not only helping young students stay in school, but also attracting those from private schools. Ogunkola Adefunke Deborah, headteacher of Baptist Nursery and Primary School, said her pupils now "come to classes regularly" and are "very punctual".

"We have over 80 new pupils, most of them came from private schools," she said. "Before you hardly see parents coming here, but now they come to ask us why their kids beg to be brought to school early and why they always return home with their pocket money."

Deborah shared an anecdote of a boy who refused to go home even when he was sick because he didn't want to miss a meal.

Rebecca Faronbi, 72, was devastated when her son died and left her with four grandchildren to take care of. Her three-year-old granddaughter now receives the free meals at school.

"Until the feeding programme started I was struggling to feed the children. My granddaughter wakes me up before 7am and tells me she wants to go to school because she will get free food there," Faronbi said in the Yoruba language, which is widely spoken in southwestern Nigeria.

Rampant malnutrition
Research has shown that 42 percent of schoolchildren in Nigeria suffer malnutrition, and this has caused a high rate of absenteeism.

UNICEF estimates about 2.5 million Nigerian children under the age of five suffer from severe malnutrition each year, with about half a million children dying from it.

With a quality assurance tracking system known as #TrackWithUs, the programme handlers have urged Nigerians to visit nearby schools to check if meals meet the required standards and report any cooks who aren't serving proper food.

Several cooks were fired in southern Cross River state last November for serving biscuits in lieu of meals.

"The campaign has helped us track activities in schools and strengthened our existing monitoring and supervision mechanism," Adesanmi said. "Since there is a reward and sanction system in place we have been able to name and shame cooks who do not comply with our standards."

A major barrier to the programme's success is the inability of state governments to scale up the meals to senior classes in elementary schools. The federal government caters to pupils from Grades 1 to 3, but with many states struggling to pay salaries, pupils in higher grades are not being fed.

Experts hope the government will not repeat the same mistakes made a decade ago when a combination of inadequate funding, poor logistics, and corruption crippled the scheme.

"We need to promote community participation, community ownership, community implementation, community monitoring, strong institutional arrangements and multi-sector partnerships," Adesanmi said.

Source: Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/indepth/features/nigeria-school-food-scheme-revolutionising-education-180219074804535.html?__twitter_impression=true

Whenever Buhari sees he has shot in his image, he looks for nice story to cover his mess.

Remember the Bill Gate vs Martin Luther award? It has been they style ever since, a trademark of a government built on propaganda... now they went ahead to use our oil money to bribe Aljazeera

vedaxcool:
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They hate progress and celebrate evil and death.

They are not only lazy in thoughts but would rather drink poison and die than to admit that the lunch eaten by their sibs/kids is from the stable of PMB.

misano:



That is what a 'promise & fail' government gets when all it loves is propaganda.


Remeber APC did everything possible to make GEJ look bad. We all supported Buhari, but now we have all come to understand this government. All they do is lie lie and lie.

But this school feeding program is no lie
I'm not saying I support the government, but when it gets 1tin right we either praise them or remain quiet.

tribalmall:


What kind of argument is this ?
Some of you Igbo who argue like this deserve to be stoned to death. I swear.

Bros stop arguing with igbos , the hate they have for Buhari will never let them see anything good in this government, the hate is just too much , I stopped arguing with igbos long time again because they hate they have for Buhari sometimes make them looks like fools when arguing with them ...

Igbos are too lazy

chinedi7:
Provide good jobs for the parents...no need to feed their kids for them

don't mind them. its just another means of siphoning public funds. #70 can't provide quality meal, even for a kid, in this bubu era. empower the parents & the kids 'll be more comfortable.

I swear, if I am the president of Nigeria this will not be on my list of achievement. If you love your country the best you can do for the people. 1. Build roads, healthcare, education for every child, provide electricity, revamp the agric sector and drive better economic initiatives and watch Nigeria auto-grow.

Enough of this propaganda, do Federal government sponsor the programme?, If yes, it is yet to be implemented in all the South Eastern states, even here in Lagos

Mabpaine:
Cheap publicity. A plan to keep them dependent on U? Why not create a good business environment and harness ur greatest Assets (human resources) in that way their parents, brothers, sisters, aunt n Uncles can earn to take care of this lil ones. Keep wasting the Nation's money on cheap publicity U call solution. And some people who cant think strategically see this as a permanent solution or what exactly is this mearnt to achieve?

Slow thinking, so they should wait for full development and fully developed human resources first before guaranteeing one nutritious meal a day. They should wait for something Nigeria in it's fifty something years of existence has not yet achieved.
You and your children may not need the intervention but spare a bit of your heart and think of the lot of those 8 million kids been fed if not for this intervention. I guess you also prefer those who will splash the money on private jets and throw expensive yatch parties. They are clamouring to come back shedding crocodile tears with fake apologies

bugidon:
Fake propaganda by apc and their terrorist government

it is not fake

chinedi7:
Provide good jobs for the parents...no need to feed their kids for them

What does it cost to provide one job for one person. And who puts the money down? If you're referring to government, do they have that kinda money

bugidon:
bros with your sincere mind, is there any school feeding program in your state because am sure there is non in my region

You're a pathetic liar and you know nothing about the South East.

Kyase:
bros this is not NTA.

Guy aljezeera dont know better. its a fraud. if u doubt me look at d environment is it conducive for learning.

toye440:

Guy aljezeera dont know better. its a fraud. if u doubt me look at d environment is it conducive for learning.

but when alj were reporting something negative about Buhari last year, they know better right, or CNN and BBC abi

CaptJeffry:
Shut your trap old man, this is a paid propaganda and every sane person knows that.

don't mind the malu... as if he is too young to rule a country.