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March 01, 2021
Children more likely to return to school and local economies to recover from the devastating impact of COVID-19 in the continent
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – The 6th African Day of School Feeding (ADSF), was celebrated under the theme “Harnessing Africa’s Traditional Knowledge and Food to Support Home-Grown School Feeding Programmes and Systems During COVID-19 Response and Beyond”. The date marked the commitment of African countries to strengthen and consolidate political will for school feeding on the continent.
Across Africa, one in two school children, or over 65 million children received a nutritious meal in school every day in 2019, a massive increase from 38.4 million in 2013. This was until the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic caused disruptions in learning and ended a decade of growth for school meal programmes in 2020. The African Union Commission in a new report launched on the 6th Day of the Africa School Feeding day, underscored that African
Minister inaugurates 259 monitors for N-SIP projects in Adamawa today.ng - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from today.ng Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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A total of 88 independent monitors in Gombe state have begun training by Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs Disaster Management and Social Development for the implementation of federal Government National Social Investment Programmes.
The training was flagged off on Saturday by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq in Gombe.
The Minister said that the training was organized to enable the 88 participants engaged be saddled with the responsibility of monitoring the implementation of the Social Investment Programme in the state to ensure that the objectives are achieved.
Represented by the Chief Administration Officer of Ministry, Mr Silas Wuyah, the Minister said that the training was currently taking place across the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory.
The Government of Canada contributes CAD 1 million to WFP to support the national school meal programme and boost local farming in Sri Lanka
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COLOMBO – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Government of Sri Lanka welcome a funding of CAD 1 million (LKR 151 million) from Global Affairs Canada to help smallholder farmers cultivate nutritious crops for the National School Meal Programme.
Responding to the impacts of Covid-19, the Home Grown School Feeding project will provide nutritious and safe school meals to vulnerable primary school children by linking the National School Meal Programme with local smallholder farmers. The project will benefit an estimated 1,700 female farmers and 170,000 children in several districts across the Northern, Eastern and North Central provinces.
Seventy years next Wednesday, February 3, life has been kind to a former National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party and later, Chairman of the National Identity Management Company, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, who spent his productive years serving his fatherland in the Nigerian Army. Yinka Kolawole writes
One of the very few people in this country, who have been fortunate to rule two states at different times, is Olagunsoye Oyinlola, a prince of Okuku, Osun State. He was a Military Administrator of Lagos State from December 1993 to August 1996.
Nine years after leaving Lagos, he was sworn in as the elected governor of Osun State on May 29, 2003 and remained on the seat till November 26, 2010. He later became the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party and later, Chairman of the National Identity Management Company (NIMC).