Rockefeller Foundation, yesterday, urged Nigeria and other African countries not to back out of school feeding programmes.
The international agency reckoned that the daily feeding scheme for schoolchildren was directly linked to high literacy goals and energising the rural economy. The international agency reckoned that the daily feeding scheme for schoolchildren was directly linked to high literacy goals and energising the rural economy.
Speaking on the theme: ‘Creating fiscal space for school meals: Towards Agenda 2063, SDGs and human capital development’, the Director of Agriculture and Agro-Industry at the African Development Bank, Dr Martin Fregene, told the high-level gathering of policymakers and decision-makers that the freedom from hunger is a human right.
He and other speakers pointed out that free meals helped children’s cognitive capacities, led to higher attendance levels, improved health and nutrition levels and general well-being. Acknowledging the economic dilemma, he called for African countries to turbocharge the continent’s drive to meet the SDGs with out-of-the-box thinking, and not fall further behind as school children were the guardians of Africa’s future and critical in achieving the “Africa We Want”.
The State Chairman, Committee of Lawyers and Secretaries of the Nigerian Bar Association in Anambra State, Izuchukwu Nsofor, has claimed that about 60 people were killed in Ihiala Local Council of the state between December 2023 and May 2024.
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