Remi Tinibu Seeks Assistance On Sustainable Rollout Of Climate-Friendly School Meals

The First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu has called on development partners to assist in the country’s bid to roll out climate-friendly school meal programs.

According to a release by her spokesperson, Bisola Kukoyi, Mrs. Tinubu stated this at the Roundtable lunch, organized by the Organization 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 the school feeding programme to drive up enrollment in schools as well as promote nutrition among scholars, the First Lady said the programme was under review in Nigeria.

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

To ensure sustainable rollout, Nigeria with its surging population and climatic challenges, needs all the help it 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 Borno State. 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 to get Nigeria back on its feet,” she said.

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