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First Lady Urges Global Support For Climate-friendly School Meals

by Jonathan Nda-Isaiah
1 year ago
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Climate-friendly School Meals
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The First Lady, Senator Remi Tinubu has called on development partners to assist the country’s bid to rollout climate-friendly school meal programmes.

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Senator Tinubu stated this at the Roundtable lunch, organised by Organisation of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD) in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation on the sideline of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Acknowledging the potential of school feeding programme to drive up enrollment in schools as well as promote nutrition among scholars, the First Lady in a statement by her media aide, Busola Kukoyi, said the programme is under review in Nigeria.

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While President Bola Tinubu has shown commitment by declaring a state of emergency on food security in the country, Senator Tinubu noted that the launch of ‘Young Farmers Club Nigeria’ and ‘Every Home A Garden Competition’ promoted by her are clear indications of the priority attached to provision of affine nutritious meals to children and others in the society.

She stressed that to ensure sustainable rollout, Nigeria with its surging population and climatic challenges, needs all the help she can get.

“Nigeria is open to assistance in that area. It is something that I believe we really want to do so that we can have school enrollment up and then get most of the children, especially children from the North that are going through desertification and recently, flooding as witnessed in Bornu State.

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“It is a hydra-headed problem that we are facing. But we are not really scared but we need all the assistance we can get, and you can believe in our administration that we are here to work for our people anger Nigeria back on its feet,” she said.

The goal of the Roundtable lunch which had in attendance other members of OAFLAD, is to among others, position the school meals agenda in the G20 engagement of the African Union.

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