Is Now The Time to Pick Holes In Nigeria's School Feeding Scheme?
President Muhammadu Buhari's administration has come in for strong criticism for continuing the school feeding scheme even though schools have been closed as COVID-19 spreads through the country. The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party is calling the programme a scam, accusing officials of plans to misuse the U.S.$34 million to support lavish lifestyles, while the African Democratic Congress are calling for an investigation into the programme. As politicians squabble over the viability of the feeding scheme during school closure, how will they be fed if the scheme is stopped.
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Nigeria:
A Curious Home Feeding Programme
This Day, 28 May 2020
The feeding programme is ill-advised Read more »
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Nigeria:
37,589 Persons to Benefit From Govt's School Feeding Programme in Lagos
This Day, 20 May 2020
The federal government through the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development will commence the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme of 37589… Read more »
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Nigeria:
School Feeding Programme - Lsubeb Pledges Transparency, Targets 37,459 Households
This Day, 20 May 2020
The Chairman, Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Wahab Alawiye-King has expressed the board's readiness to ensure transparency and accountability in the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
COVID-19 'School Feeding' Should Be Probed
Vanguard, 19 May 2020
When President Muhammadu Buhari made his second national broadcast on the coronavirus pandemic on April 13, 2020 and said that the regime's Homegrown School Feeding Programme,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Anambra Works Towards Safe Reopening of Schools
Daily Trust, 21 May 2020
With the gradual lifting of lockdown measures, civil servants and teachers have been directed to report to work in Anambra State even as students remain at home and the government… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Hubris and the School-Feeding Programme
Daily Trust, 19 May 2020
The Oxford English Dictionary defines hubris as exaggerated pride or self-confidence. It is tantamount to arrogance, conceit, haughtiness, pride, self-importance, pomposity,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
The Dirty Politics of School Feeding
This Day, 18 May 2020
It is regrettable that politics in Nigeria is fast becoming an anathema to development, with particularly perilous impact on government-driven development policies and programmes,… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Protect Most Vulnerable in COVID-19 Response
HRW, 14 April 2020
Nigeria's federal and state governments should ensure the rights to food, shelter, and other basic necessities for people losing jobs or income during the COVID-19 pandemic. The… Read more »
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A total of 5,162 COVID-19 cases have been recorded as at May 14, 2020, and if the government's lockdown regulations, social distancing and the wearing of masks are not followed by ... Read more »
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At the daily Presidential Task Force COVID-19 briefing, federal government secretary Boss Mustapha said the extension would be effective until June 1, 2020. Abuja and Lagos and ... Read more »
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