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Nigerian Government Feeds 8.7m School Children

Mrs Zainab Ahmed, Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, says the Federal Government has no fewer than 8.7 million school children in its Home Grown School Feeding Programme. Ahmed disclosed this while fielding questions from some stakeholders, on the status of the programme at the Public Presentation of the 2018 Approved Budget of Consolidation

Tufiakwa!!
My children shall never partake in that feeding programme.
Who says I cannot prepare breakfast and lunch for my kids before going to school?
All those mass production food will never have taste; moreso, ....
Once that food is contaminated in any way, all that partake in it will suffer for it!

Can someone tell this guy's that the feeding program is a scam and just a way to enrich a set of particular people?


You serve students water beans and bread and call that shitttt food.

tstx:
They gave them food quite alright.. But didn't give them chairs.
I don't know why karma is taking its time to catch up to our evil politicians.. If it is people who steal maggi now karma will run and be showing chest

Bros,

I believe Prof. Osinbajo is talking about the School feeding program in Nigeria. He not talking about your country (wherever that may be) or your God-forsaken village....

merbenko:
What did it changed in term of the staff welfare or have that change their thinking ideology,

"What did it changed?"
I think you need to go back to school and enrol, so that you can benefit from the value of the school feeding program. As obviously, you missed the bit and it's totally affected your capabilities.

effoi:
This project has been bastardised. It came with good intentions but the fraud being perpertuated by those implementing it in the various states no get part two. Take a sample of school children in your vicinity, how many times in a month that they are being fed, then you will know that things are not they way its being made to look

If that it true, then I believe something must be wrong with people and yourself clustered in your vicinity; seems you people are irredemably corrupt then. In other vicinities, there's hardly any reported case of fraud on the scheme. Stop judging people by your standards

chineloSA:

I wonder why can't things just be done without using yourself as a measure or standard of Africa.

That's why we are fooled because we are made to believe that we are better than the rest of Africa.

It is supposed to be the largest because we have the largest population and highest number of people living below the poverty line.

What does he expect?

Nope,

This is how some of you turn logic southwards.

It is the largest in terms of comparative capacity and output.

According to him, "at current numbers, the programme costs $1,767,169.48 per day and over $183million has been invested so far in the programme. The programme employs 95,422 cooks, and over 100,000 smallholder farmers linked to the programme, supplying locally sourced ingredients. This translates to 594 cattle, 138,000 chickens, 6.8 million eggs, 83 metric tons of fish that are procured, prepared, and distributed each week. As you can imagine, the quantity of starch and vegetables required for this program on a weekly basis is equally impressive".

Other benefits achieved under the programme include a ready market and a sustainable income for our farmers, as well as improved livelihoods for cooks with access to useful and affordable financial products and services that meet their needs. "Financial inclusion is a key enabler to reducing poverty and boosting prosperity".



"Moreover, with the capturing of their biometrics and the opening of bank accounts as a prerequisite to their participation in the programme, we are ramping up on our country’s needs for identification, planning and social inclusion efficiencies in Nigeria."

He told the audience that the success of the programme in a short time is due to factors such as unequivocal political will, transparency and accountability, good value for all participants in the value chain, multi-sectoral coordination and strategic partnership with international donors such as Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation and Partnership For Child Development, Imperial College.

Simply turn the numbers to percentages and check those percentages with other African countries

MANofMEN:
NATIONAL SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME TO BECOME AFRICA'S LARGEST BY END OF 2018, SAYS VP OSINBAJO



* Over 9m primary pupils benefiting in 26 states already

* Over $183million has been invested so far

* 95,422 cooks and over 100,000 smallholder farmers benefitting





By the end of 2018, with the number of new States in the country joining the National Homegrown School Feeding Programme, it is set to become the largest school-feeding programme in Africa, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.



He stated this in Tunisia, where he delivered a keynote address at the closing ceremony of the 20th Annual Global Child Nutrition Forum held at Four Seasons hotel in Tunis, stating that the programme "has been by all accounts, a remarkable success.”



Speaking on the philosophy underlying the Programme, Prof Osinbajo told the 353 delegates from 9 countries, which include experts in the nutrition industry, United Nations officials from World Food Programme, Global Child Nutrition Fund, the World Bank and stakeholders that "Nigeria took the decision to embark on a school feeding programme as an important part of our human capital development agenda, by tackling the broader issues of eradication of poverty, food and nutrition security, and increasing school enrollment."



He added, "it is becoming clearer that the 21st Century will be defined by knowledge and skills. The nations that are best able to present the most knowledgeable and most skilful citizens will prevail in commerce, in science and technology and of course, will enjoy the greatest prosperity and the longevity to enjoy the prosperity. Nations that do not invest enough to produce the required level of talent and skills will be left behind. A farther distance than ever before in the history of mankind."



Emphasizing on the importance of the school-feeding programme, he posited that "For developing countries such as ours and of course many African countries, by far the greatest challenge for us in the next three decades is that of effective investment in the health and education of our population. Nutrition is key to both, to enable children usefully participate, learn and develop mentally and physically to be able to compete in an increasingly competitive global environment."



"By 2035, Africa will have 1.2billion people. Over 50% of that number will be young persons under the age of 25. Today, 60 per cent of the unemployed in Africa are young people", he observed.



Expatiating on the scope and cost of the Programme, Prof. Osinbajo said "at a cost of $0.19 per child per day, we are able to provide a balanced meal for every one of the children. 9,300,892 million pupils in 49,837 public primary schools in 26 states across Nigeria benefit daily."



According to him, "at current numbers, the programme costs $1,767,169.48 per day and over $183million has been invested so far in the programme. The programme employs 95,422 cooks, and over 100,000 smallholder farmers linked to the programme, supplying locally sourced ingredients. This translates to 594 cattle, 138,000 chickens, 6.8 million eggs, 83 metric tons of fish that are procured, prepared, and distributed each week. As you can imagine, the quantity of starch and vegetables required for this program on a weekly basis is equally impressive".



The Vice President highlighted the physical and health benefits to children currently being impacted, he stated that "energy and nutrients with established links to cognition- carbohydrates, protein, fat, iron and iodine as well as minerals with public health importance, are targeted by the NHGSF", adding that "the program aims to provide 50% of the recommended nutrient intake targets for protein and prioritized micronutrients (iron, iodine, zinc, vitamin A, folate and vitamin C and 30% of energy because of the high burden of undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies in Nigeria.”



Other benefits achieved under the programme include a ready market and a sustainable income for our farmers, as well as improved livelihoods for cooks with access to useful and affordable financial products and services that meet their needs. "Financial inclusion is a key enabler to reducing poverty and boosting prosperity".



"Moreover, with the capturing of their biometrics and the opening of bank accounts as a prerequisite to their participation in the programme, we are ramping up on our country’s needs for identification, planning and social inclusion efficiencies in Nigeria."



He told the audience that the success of the programme in a short time is due to factors such as unequivocal political will, transparency and accountability, good value for all participants in the value chain, multi-sectoral coordination and strategic partnership with international donors such as Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation and Partnership For Child Development, Imperial College.



Prof Osinbajo earlier commended the Global Child Nutrition Forum and World Food Programme, for providing such an excellent opportunity for the global school feeding community to come together to share ideas, learn from and inspire each other.



Present at the occasion were Hatem Ben Salem, Minister of Education, Republic of Tunisia; Arlene Mitchell, Executive Director, Global Child Nutrition Fund; Don Burdy, Specialist at World Food Programme/World Bank; Daniel Balaban, Director of Centre of Excellence Against Hunger in Brazil and other regional representatives of WEF and GCNF, international donors as well as other participants.



'Laolu Akande

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity

Office of the Vice President

25 October 2018

This man should be ashamed.

Countries are celebrating latest infrastructures and the rest, he is here celebrating feeding of student which is basic.

reachbenny:
SCAM!
Is the food a motivation to attend school or what exactly is the motive?

Why not provide jobs for their parents to earn a decent wage and cater for their own children?

That food might serve as a distraction to learning. Some of them will only be interested in the food.

This is CORRUPTION in disguise.

So because of that, you refused to go to school?

backnbeta:

lexy2014: :

D vendors are complaining cos d agreement they have is that they can't prepare a meal 4 more than N35

N35 meal? How is that possible? No wonder we learnt some students were fed with rotten chickens last year.

Both of you, keep lying to yourselves

This shit is not available in South South o

tstx:
They gave them food quite alright.. But didn't give them chairs.
I don't know why karma is taking its time to catch up to our evil politicians.. If it is people who steal maggi now karma will run and be showing chest

LOL

Just wait for the media spin on the benefits of having free lunch in the full glare of nature, inculcating a healthy respect for agricultural values...

Lilimax:
Tufiakwa!!
My children shall never partake in that feeding programme.
Who says I cannot prepare breakfast and lunch for my kids before going to school?
All those mass production food will never have taste; moreso, ....
Once that food is contaminated in any way, all that partake in it will suffer for it!

Pls, save us this unnecessary bragging-rights on some low-level platform. You sha want us to know you can prepare food.........

The program is talking about children in public schools, most of whom their parents are unable to afford good and nutritious meals. We are talking about these children having access to good food so that they can be in proper frame of mind to learn. We are talking about value-chain (Cooks, Farmers, Poultry, transport, packaging etc) you are taking about "Tufiakwa!"......some of you the just came out of the village, "the village" has not come out of you

....but is this man truly a pastor, and if so, who made him a pastor?

Imagine a pastor in the midst of cultists, that pastor would turn out to be worse than the lucifer himself

Shameless vp

mapet:


Pls, save us this unnecessary bragging-rights on some low-level platform. You sha want us to know you can prepare food.........

The program is talking about children in public schools, most of whom their parents are unable to afford good and nutritious meals. We are talking about these children having access to good food so that they can be in proper frame of mind to learn. We are talking about value-chain (Cooks, Farmers, Poultry, transport, packaging etc) you are taking about "Tufiakwa!"......some of you the just came out of the village, "the village" has not come out of you

So you want to help these kids by feeding them? Good!
But how have you assisted their parents?
Don't give me fish, teach me how to fish

Sprumbabafather:
I support this programme not because the good south needs it, NO. An average Iboman or Ijawman can afford to send their kids to the best private schools and pay heavily for transportation and feeding. To the Ibos and Ijaws, its an investment so we don't need this watery beans service.

I support the free feeding to enable our northern and south west and north central brothers to send their children to much needed schools because if not for things like this, the uneducated ones will somehow find themselves in power in those states and continue to pull this contraption down, and we end up using our Niger Delta oil money to fight the troubles they kick up

Laughs!! you must be living an average or above average income as regard Nigerian scenario. All zones in Nigeria needs this! I have been to all zones I see no difference, there are extremely poor people all over. It is ignorance on the part of my southern brothers to think only the north is poor, they may be right because they have largest population of poor people but I have seen extreme poverty in south-east, south west. I won't mention ijaw only but I will say in the whole south the south-south are the poorest.

Lilimax:

So you want to help these kids by feeding them? Good!
But how have you assisted their parents?
Don't give me fish, teach me how to fish

Even if they teach you how to fish, you will still be slow on the uptake. I guess the cooks, the farmers, the poultry growers involved are parents of foreigners?

It is a wonerful Programme

na how una wan take give people pikin winch be this

The National Home Grown School Feeding Programme is the best policy of the Federal Government towards motivating children to school in the history of this country.

wirinu:
that is good one

What is good one, when the standard of education is nothing to write home about, they should focus on infrastructures and facility that will raise education in government schools, I am a product of bad primary and secondary school and I knew the toll it had on me during university days, so they should tell us how education and teaching in public schools have improved since they assumed office.

Am happy to see that other countries can now learn from Nigeria

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When you have good people in leadership positions, the ordinary masses will rejoice. This Home Grown School Feeding Programme is really solving the problems of students enrolments. Thank God for the Vice President and his team for the wonderful job

mapet:


Nope,

This is how some of you turn logic southwards.

It is the largest in terms of comparative capacity and output.






Simply turn the numbers to percentages and check those percentages with other African countries

Listen, I didn't dispute the numbers. In fact it's normal because we are the most populous nation and have the highest number of people living below poverty line.That's my logic? What logic do you have Mr Logic?

slineik:



This man should be ashamed.

Countries are celebrating latest infrastructures and the rest, he is here celebrating feeding of student which is basic.

don't worry , chukwu adeniyi Hassan-this time next week will be Nigeria s first man on the moon ! you will have a lot to celebrate next week ! Congratulations in advance !

chineloSA:



Listen, I didn't dispute the numbers. In fact it's normal because we are the most populous nation and have the highest number of people living below poverty line.That's my logic? What logic do you have Mr Logic?

Your logic is twisted and did not diligently look at the context within which it was predicted to be the largest in Africa. What your logic has simply done is the lazy-man reasoning (so we are the most populous, hence the largest). I have explained to you that the context looks at the capacities of the countries involved and compared to others. If Ghana with their population demonstrates a capacity that showed more children on the program in relation to enrollment or total number of schools, more cooks compared to total number of potential cooks within a catchment area (same for farmers, poultry farmers, transporters etc), then Ghana with a lower population can be rated to have a larger program.

Investing heavily on stomach infrastructure.
We keep counting wasted years because of myopicness of a few in the corridor of power.
When are we going to enjoy free education in all our institutions (from Primary to Tertiary)?
All the Trillions so far has not secure our future so it would have being more profitable if the whole resource is channel wholly into free eduction program instead of free feeding program.

Jadeshola:
To me it a slap on the face having the govt feed your children,it means even d govt hv failed.
Turn d economy around,make life bearable and people will feed their own children.

It's isn't Jade

Do you know there is food Bank in UK? Not everyone can eat three square meals in one of the world's biggest economy.

Few years ago, UK started giving one meal a day to pupils from reception to primary 2.

It's on record that school enrolment has increased. Good for the country!

AtikuDeman:
....but is this man truly a pastor, and if so, who made him a pastor?

Imagine a pastor in the midst of cultists, that pastor would turn out to be worse than the lucifer himself

Shameless vp

Osinbajo is a pride to humanity and I am proud to have him as a Christian leaders.