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School Feeding Solves Nigeria’s Nutritional Challenges – Osinbajo

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said on Monday that one of the reasons the present administration’s Homegrown School Feeding Programme was conceived was to address problems of malnutrition, especially among primary school pupils.

Osinbajo stated this while receiving a delegation of Nigerian human nutritionists led by the Deputy Governor of Kano State, Prof. Hafiz Abubakar, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

According to Osinbajo, the Federal Government will be ready to collaborate with states where nutrition issues are most urgent in prioritising the implementation of the school feeding programme.

Already, 14 states are benefiting from the programme across the country, with almost three million pupils being fed daily.

The vice president said the government would consider inaugurating the National Council on Nutrition.

He, however, urged the experts to come up with an action plan to effectively address the malnutrition challenges in the country.

Abubakar, who came with leaders of the Nutrition Society of Nigeria, had detailed the concerns of Nigerian professional human nutritionists on malnutrition challenges and how Nigeria was faring on the global nutrition targets.

The delegation urged the federal government to inaugurate a National Council on Nutrition to address the situation.

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