By Asma’u Ahmad
Public Primary Schools Pupils in Kwara state are to benefit from the National Home-Grown School Feeding programme of the Federal Government in 2017.
Focal Person of the Federal Government Social Intervention Programme in Kwara, Chief Ayobola Samuel, made this known to newsmen in Ilorin.
He said that the pilot scheme had already commenced in 16 states of the federation where millions of pupils in public schools were benefitting.
Chief Samuel, who is also the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Sports and Youth Development, said that the programme would improve school enrollment.
According to him, other benefits of the programme are improvement in academic performance, reduction in child labour and improvement in child nutrition. He said that the one-meal per day would also create multiplier effects on the local economies in the communities where the schools were located.
