- Tahir Mamman, the Minister of Education, announced quick wins in middle Ministerial deliverables from 2023 to 2027 during a one-day retreat.
- The president has instructed the minister to transfer the school feeding program from the Ministry of Humanitarian to the Ministry of Education.
To address the issues faced by children who are not in school, the administration led by President Bola Tinubu has reinstated the school feeding initiative.
It was learned that President Tinubu issued the command.
After several years of operation, the scheme was terminated by the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Nonetheless, President Tinubu issued an order for its reinstatement, claiming that it would aid in containing the learning problem.
He said if the learning crisis is not tackled, it will be difficult to address the challenges of out-of-school children.
The Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, disclosed this during a one-day retreat on quick wins in the middle Ministerial deliverables from 2023 to 2027.
According to the minister, the president directed that the school feeding programme be removed from the Ministry of Humanitarian and returned to the Ministry of Education.
The Minister said the essence of the retreat was to find ways of implementing all the policies developed to tackle the challenges and to distil responsibility to different agencies responsible for overturning the out-of-school children problem.