It has been reported that the government led by President Bola Tinubu has reintroduced a school feeding programme to address the challenges of out-of-school children. The directive to restore the programme was given by President Tinubu after it was suspended during the administration of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari. President Tinubu hopes that the programme will help to tackle the learning crisis, which if left unchecked, could make it difficult to address the challenges of out-of-school children. The Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, disclosed this information during a one-day retreat on quick wins in the middle Ministerial deliverables from 2023 to 2027. Additionally, the President has directed that the school feeding programme be removed from the Ministry of Humanitarian and returned to the Ministry of Education. The purpose of the retreat was to find ways of implementing all the policies developed to tackle the challenges and to assign responsibility to different agencies responsible for overturning the problem of out-of-school children.
