The Special Adviser to the President on Social Investments, Hajiya Maryam Uwais disclosed this in Kano. at a high level interactive Social Policy Workshop on strengthening capacity to ensure sustainability for Child targeted programmes in Northern Nigeria. The workshop was organised under the UNICEF New Country Programme (2018-2022), designed to expand the scope of interventions in social policy activities in northern. She noted that the engagement of over 136,000 teaching Assistants under the Federal Government’s N-power programme across the country had improved the quality of education being received by the children. Uwais said the school feeding programme was initiated by the Federal Government to address school enrolment problem and boost their nutrition.

Source: The Guardian July 30, 2018 14:26 UTC