We Feed
Public Schools Pupils with 594 Cattle, 138,000 Chickens, 6.8m Eggs Weekly –
Osinbajo.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has stated that pupils of public schools are being fed by the Federal Government with 594 cattles, 138,000 chickens, 6.8million eggs and 83 metric tons of fish every week.
Osinbajo
made this known while delivering a lecture titled ‘Nigeria Rising: The Path to
Prosperity’ at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) 50th convocation.
He
said:
“As
you can imagine, the quantity of starch and vegetables required for this
programme on a weekly basis is equally impressive. Dietary energy and nutrients
with established links to cognition-carbohydrates, protein, fat, iron and
iodine as well as minerals with public health importance – are targeted by the
National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSF).
“The
programme aims to provide 50% of the recommended nutrient intake targets for
protein and prioritized micro-nutrients including iron, iodine, zinc, vitamin
A, folate and vitamin C and 30% of energy because of the high burden of
under-nutrition and micro-nutrient deficiencies in Nigeria.
“There
is also a de-worming programme attached to the school feeding programme.”
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