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EKSG to add Milk to FG’s School Feeding Programme
…As Oyebanji flags off “Ikun Free Milk” initiative

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji has announced plans by his administration to include milk in the Federal Government’s School Feeding Programme for all primary school pupils in the state once the initiative resumes.

This, according to the Governor, is part of efforts to enhance the nutritional value of the meals and support the welfare of the children for improved academic and general performance.

Governor Oyebanji stated this on Wednesday during the flag off of “Ikun Milk Day” which is a weekly free milk programme for primary school pupils in Ikun Ekiti, initiated by Promasidor Nigeria Ltd, the company managing Ikun Dairy Farm, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to the host community.

Flagging off the free milk programme at a brief ceremony in Ikun Ekiti, Governor Oyebanji said the free milk initiative is the state government's way of complimenting the Federal Government’s school feeding programme.

Emphasizing the critical role of proper nutrition in the cognitive and physical development of children, the Governor said provision of milk would not only boost the health of the pupils but also encourage higher public school enrolment and attendance.

While expressing his deep gratitude to Promasidor for the initiative, the Governor assured them and other potential investors of his administration’s commitment to providing conducive environment for business through investor-friendly policies, improved infrastructure, and a secured business climate.

Governor Oyebanji also said that his government would not relent in its efforts to ensuring that every child in the state has access to quality education and nutrition, which according to him, are the bedrock of his administration's development agenda

In his own remarks, the Minister of Livestock Development, Alhaji Idi Muktah, who was represented by the Director of Corporate and Monogastic, Mr Victor Egbon, described Ikun Diary Farm as a shining example of what can be achieved through effective Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangements. He commended the collaborative efforts of Ekiti State government and Promasidor, which according to him has revitalized the dairy farm into a hum of productivity and innovation in the country

Emphasizing the critical role of livestock sector in ensuring food security, job creation, and generating revenue in the country, the Minister called on all stakeholders in the country to replicate and scale up similar initiative in the livestock development

Earlier in his remarks, the Chief Executive Officer of Promasidor Nigeria Limited, who was represented by the Director Corporate Affairs, Dr Enom Udoma-Eniang expressed profound gratitude to the Governor for his unwavering support and for fostering an enabling environment that has allowed the company’s operation to thrive in the state adding that the Governor’s proactive leadership and commitment to the partnership has been critical to the success of the company’s investment in the state.

While explaining that the free milk programme for primary schools pupils in Ikun Ekiti is part of the company’s corporate social responsibility to give back to the host community, Dr Enom assured the Governor that Promasidor remains committed to maintaining its investment in the state and exploring more opportunities for collaboration.

Earlier, the Governor, joined by some state officials and officials of Promasidor had undertook an inspection of the Ikun Diary Farm, where he was taken round the production line as well as the cows’ feeding area and other facilities.

Governor Oyebanji expressed satisfaction at the healthy state of the farm. Specifically the Governor expressed satisfaction at the remarkable increase in the number of cows, the healthy state of the cows, increase in the quantity of milk production and employment opportunity at the diary farm.

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There hasn't been milk in the children's meals before now?

Iparipate!!!BAO!!! Ogo!!!
Still better than embezzling public funds and doing nothing.

Yeye dey smell

I hope they're not planning to give the kids Instant Filled milk or Dairy Creamer because last time I checked, Full Cream milk is very expensive. Children need Full Cream milk for their protein diet.

Nigeria..

My country 😢😢

Is this development, project implementation or what? What's going on in this country?

That means them go withdraw another billions for just milk be that. That is double milking

These people self, they are taking Nigeria for granted!

Good development from Ekiti State Government

Na today

Africa!!!
Hmmmmm

Hope is not sachet mike

biggz82:
Hope is not sachet mike

Mike tyson

squins:
A governor that truly cares

really.

Remember that investigation that revealed how THERE IS NO REAL MILK in Nigeria?

What quality of milk will the CHILDREN be getting abeg?

Na who feed well dey assimilate.

God which kind country be this

Ekiti-kete

And then use the avenue to MILK the state dry.

Wtf is this fgs 🤦🤦

Okay so federal government didn't budget common milk for children in schools? Imagine, assuming it was adults it would have been manageable but FOR STILL GROWING KIDS? haba!

Dem or Thier friend don set up one milk processing factory/company...
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Normal format, dem go say na win win, but at what cost ??

billionman:
There hasn't been milk in the children's meals before now?

This is wicked,it means they had been fed with dry pap, without sugar and milk

autoez:
Good development from Ekiti State Government

How is this a good development in one of the two states created out of Pa Ajasin's Ondo state?

If Adebayo, Fayemi and Oyebanji have failed to hire enough teachers and other workers to make education free for all children, then how are they progressives instead of claiming their title of progreThieves?

Wearing Awolowo cap is obviously a scam tactic by lootocrats pretending to be democrats.

Babasessy:
The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

                                                                             http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

AllBlack:
Remember that investigation that revealed how THERE IS NO REAL MILK in Nigeria?
What quality of milk will the CHILDREN be getting abeg?

Can you pls provide a link to this investigation/report

AllBlack:
you know how to use SEARCH ENGINES right?

I've actually searched before asking you. The investigation was conducted by Premium Times but it was not reported as you stated here. It is not stated in any of the investigation report that THERE'S NO REAL MILK IN NIGERIA. You are misleading the public with this your assertion. That's why I asked for your link.

This man is an audio governor
Imagine hyping milk. With all the money he is getting, the best he can come up is milk for children and he's still hiding under until FG start school feeding
Such an unserious man

Milk ke?

Ekiti people will use the milk as soup for pounded yam!