asuustrike2009:

It would have being better the money was channel to build good library and laboratory that can last than food that wouldn't go round. So many public secondary and primary schools lack these facilities highlighted. This government shouldn't because of shame start something they can't finish

Johnnyessence:
School feeding in the elementary schools has improved drastically in our kids learning. Infact it makes them to go to school on time. With this feeding ability to read and write will drastically improved.

toby2:
is this the most important thing? With everything going on? There are better ways to put those money to good use that will still end up benefiting the children

Lilimax:
Why must they start from Anambra state
An average Anambra home feeds their children very well before going to school?
We don't need such in Anambra state rather equip their school libraries.

Not until I came to Lagos that I saw kids being given 20 naira to buy food in school

When my mama go don wake up very early to prepare breakfast and lunch for all of us before going to work

ayodotcom:

DerideGull: :


Bros sometimes I wonder if Nigeria has any reasonable person in a leadership position. The schools do not have any library or scientific laboratory yet these jackasses only worry about food. I guess the kids will be all foods no brains.

Read what you just wrote carefully again, u just made no sense. This what part of APC promise and if they had failed to fulfill it, illiterate zombies like u, would come online and start spewing trash

Mdik:
Dear Mr. President sir, the last time I checked, feeding school children is the least of the problems we have in Anambra State. Just build industries where our children can work after school, keep your food.

mightyhazell:
Why don't I like this idea of giving free food 2 pupils?

Y not gv dem free textbooks if at all u want 2 gv out ssth free. There is this loss of dignity dat coms with giving sb food for free. That is why I seldom eat at receptions and gatherings,no matter how good and enticing the food is.

I prefer vocational or even recreational centres be set up for kids rather dan serving dem 'free food' like beggars abeg!

Peroti:
APC/Buhari already campaigning for Ngige

Who told You that Anambra Pupils need food?
Useless govt.

Mom007:
It baffles me whenever I hear government say they want to feed school kids! For crying out loud, which parent let's their kids go to school without food and even snacks except in really bad situations? Instead of concentrating on Improving the quality of education, they are looking for projects that are hard to monitor which they can embezzle from.

School feeding programs have been defined by the World Bank as “targeted social safety nets that provide both educational and health benefits to the most vulnerable children, thereby increasing enrollment rates, reducing absenteeism, and improving food security at the household level.” [1] Beyond improvements in access to food, school feeding programs also have a positive impact on nutritional status, gender equity, and educational status, each of which contributes to improving overall levels of country and human development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_feeding_in_low-income_countries

Education: A daily school meal provides a strong incentive to send children to school and keep them there. It allows children to focus on their studies rather than their stomachs and helps to increase school enrollment and attendance, decrease drop-out rates, and improve cognitive abilities. Programmes can be tailored to provide take-home rations to target girls in areas where there is a gender gap.
https://www.wfp.org/school-meals

FEDERAL Government’s plan to introduce a school feeding programme for primary school pupils in the country is a demonstration of its commitment to tackling the rot in Nigeria’s education system from the root. The idea is laudable and should be supported by all who crave a great future for the country. That abject poverty is wreaking havoc in most families is no longer in doubt and families in this predicament, who can hardly afford one meal a day, find it extremely difficult to send their kids to school. This has, for long, been an endemic problem culminating in the rising number of out-of school children.
http://guardian.ng/opinion/on-the-school-feeding-programme/

robay1:

Lilimax: :
Why must they start from Anambra state undecided
An average Anambra home feeds their children very well before going to school?
We don't need such in Anambra state rather equip their school libraries.
Not until I came to Lagos that I saw kids being given 20 naira to buy food in school embarassed

When my mama go don wake up very early to prepare breakfast and lunch for all of us before going to work smiley

and wot are u trying to insulate U people talk as if their is no poor people in ur region and na lie,no be because of hunger wey don wire the lady that wanted to sell her three children for money yesterday ? For enugu.

Nonsense.

freshboi88:


Scientific laboratory in a primary school, guy if u want to criticize pls criticize constructively and with some sense nah

Aufbauh:


So you'd prefer school library and scientific laboratory to the feeding of school children?
A hungry stomach can not comprehend a line in the book.
Besides the APC led FG is only responding to their campaign promise.

rusher14:

DerideGull:
:


Bros sometimes I wonder if Nigeria has any reasonable person in a leadership position. The schools do not have any library or scientific laboratory yet these jackasses only worry about food. I guess the kids will be all foods no brains.

It'll be nice to know what kind of experiments you are expecting from the primary school pupils especially those in primary one.

room089:
I have some little worries over this exercise:

1. The money must surely be diverted; if not wholly, then partly. - Why do you say so. Osun state feeding program (the test case) was not reported to have been diverted.

2. Who can vouch for the authenticity and regularity of this programme?How do you want to vouch for it? It has just started, except you want to monitor it yourself

3. What measures have been put in place to monitor how these foods are prepared? And how effective would these measures be seeing that everything in this good country can always be compromised?You need to read up the report and other progress reports on the feeding program. The report says the cooks have been trained. There are inspection officers that will monitor them. Simple



In my opinion, I suggest that instead of this food, total free education should be put in place.


God bless Nigeria!

obiageIi:
God bless any government that feeds its kids

deebsman1:
Who says there are no alternative plans/schemes both in the past and presently catering for all of that, from equipping the schools to providing other amenities, including laboratories and libraries and which PRI school even needs lab?. We must learn not to just be condemning every policies. I remember when they were reluctant to implement this same campaign policy, all of you guys were criticizing them, now they've implemented the promise, u r saying something else, even in dis bad economic time. What could someone do to satisfies u pipu?

asuustrike2009:

We're condemning this policy because you and I know it wouldn't work properly. El Rufai and Aregbesola try similar thing but it failed. They're many things this government can do that will be beneficial to all instead of embarking on projects that may not yield any positive result.

mapet:


Wrong. Aregbesola's worked and still working

asuustrike2009:

El rufai nkor?

freshboi88:


Scientific laboratory in a primary school, guy if u want to criticize pls criticize constructively and with some sense nah

Lilimax:
Why must they start from Anambra state
An average Anambra home feeds their children very well before going to school?
We don't need such in Anambra state rather equip their school libraries.

Not until I came to Lagos that I saw kids being given 20 naira to buy food in school

When my mama go don wake up very early to prepare breakfast and lunch for all of us before going to work

Orikinla:

Imagine giving dogs meat to share to puppies.
Only the leftovers will be given to the school pupils.

PapaBrowne:
All these unsustainable social policies that add little impact to the intellectual capacity of a child.

Most children in the South are well nourished. There are better ways to execute social welfare that providing food for school kids.

agwom:



http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/cooks-get-n54m-from-fg-to-feed-anambra-pupils/175138.html#GGQRHhI5mwCZmfxv.99

correctguy0900:


So what's is wrong with that in a 21st century primary school. In developed society even nursery got lab where they engage not just in theory but physical experiments. U find these even in South Africa. Before Buhary came, these children eat and given a token to buy lunch at school by their parents. Albeit not to say that feeding is not a bad idea but the question is, is it the most pressing need of these kids? Is that how a class room should look like in the first place. There is nothing like sound learning environment with the modern facilities and updated teachers. I will stop here.

But Why do u guys insult others when u urself is as clueless as naija leaders? en? Answer me