School Feeding Programme For Launch

According to an online report,the presidency has said that Nigeria’s first national Home Grown School Feeding programme which would affect about 5.5million Nigerians in the first year of its operation would be rolling out soon in several states.

Senior special assistant to Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande, stated that, in the final rounds of preparation for the commencement of the free school feeding programme for primary school pupils, the federal and state governments would review the strategic plan for the rollout of the scheme which is part of the N500bn social investment plans of the Buhari presidency.

He said, “The strategic plans runs until 2020 and forms the cornerstone of the nationwide Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programme which, when fully realised, will provide a nutritious hot meal a day to over 24 million primary school children.

Private Schools Should Support Public Schools- El-Rufai

The Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai has called for synergy between private and public schools to aid the development of educational sector.

He explained, “ this could be in form of teacher training or infrastructure deployment, any form of capacity deployment that  private schools can do,  its important for us to support every child in Nigeria have qualitative  education.”

He gave this advice last weekend during the graduation ceremony of the second set of senior secondary school students of The Centagon internation School, Abuja.

El-Rufai who was represented by his chief of staff, Hadiza Bala said there’s been a decay in Nigeria’ public system up till now, with the  quality of education in public schools dropping.

“So we are calling on private schools to see how they can give back by supporting public schools..