To address the challenges faced by children who are not enrolled in school, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has requested that the school feeding programme be reinstated.
The initiative was discontinued by the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari after many years of operation.
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However, Tinubu ordered its reactivation, arguing that it would help address the problem of learning.
He claimed that it would be challenging to address the issues faced by out-of-school children if the learning problem is not addressed.
During a one-day session on quick wins in the middle ministerial deliverables from 2023 to 2027, Prof. Tahir Mamman, the minister of education, revealed this.
The minister said that the president had ordered the school feeding scheme to be transferred back to the Ministry of Education from the Ministry of Humanitarian.
Finding strategies to put all the policies created to address the issues into practice and assigning accountability to various organisations in charge of solving the issue of out-of-school children, according to the Minister, was the main goal of the retreat.
