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President Bola Tinubu has ordered the reintroduction of school feeding programmes to address the issues facing out-of-school children.
After several years of operation, the initiative was discontinued by the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
But Tinubu ordered its restoration, saying it will help in checking the learning crisis.
He said that it would be challenging to solve the issues faced by out-of-school children if the learning problem is not addressed.
Prof. Tahir Mamman, the Minister of Education, revealed this at a one-day workshop focused on incremental improvements in the middle ministerial objectives between 2023 and 2027.
The minister claimed that the president gave the order to transfer the school feeding program from the Ministry of Humanitarian to the Ministry of Education.
According to the him, the main goals of the retreat were to figure out how to put all of the policies created to address the issues into practice and assign accountability to various organizations in charge of solving the issue of out-of-school youth.
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