he National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) in Bauchi State is said to be enmeshed in racketeering that is giving room for non-compliance with the menu based on farm produce locally grown by smallholder farmers to provide pupils nutritious meals.…
The National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP), with a target of reaching 12 million pupils, is feeding over 9.5 million pupils in 30 states, with each state having its list of homegrown foods supplied for the programme. However, the menu…
Our correspondent in Gombe visits the once prestigious Government Comprehensive Secondary School, Dadin Kowa, where years of neglect have left the students no option but to share accommodation with bats while afraid of hoodlums. Read more:
N570m UBEC projects untraceable Muazu Ibrahim, 9, attends Kofar Hausa Government Primary School in Keffi, Nasarawa State, North-Central, Nigeria. Although he goes to school in a clean uniform, Muazu usually returns home appearing scruffy because he learns in a dusty…
Government Junior Secondary School, Owaza, in Alwaza, Nasarawa State was established eight years ago but has never had a single classroom in its name. It had relied on a nearby primary school for classes but after that school was burnt…
Bauchi State Government says it will improve the School feeding programme for primary school pupils in the state as part of efforts to ensure sanity and fairness. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Social Investment Alhaji Madaki Ahmed Gololo,…
The federal government has resumed the School Feeding Programme in Gombe state six months after its stoppage. A teacher in one of the affected schools had last week appealed to the government to resume the programme, saying that the stoppage…
It’s Tuesday morning, and pupils and teachers walk-in and out of Mamudo Primary School, obeying bell rings that command them to maximize their school hours. Amidst chats and shriek of pupils in Primary 3B, Halima Muhammed, 9, was sitting on…
The Benue State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) on Friday disclosed that its ongoing cleanup discovered 256 deceased teachers who were still drawing their salaries on payroll. SUBEB’s chairman, Mathew Mnyam, who made the disclosure at a press conference in…
Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State on Friday queried the chairman of the Nasarawa State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Mohammed Dan’azumi, for not knowing the exact number of staff on the board’s payroll. The governor queried the SUBEB boss,…
