Administrative bottlenecks, late payments to vendors and suppliers, and paucity of funds, remain a thorny issue in the largely successful free school feeding programme.
The Federal Government has so far released a total of N844, 360, 550 for the commencement of the homegrown school feeding programme in seven states across the country.
The Niger State government is set to kick-off the school feeding programme for primary pupils in the state.
Governor of the state, Abubakar Bello, issued a directive to this effect when he hosted a team of education experts from Cambridge University, United Kingdom and MRL Public Sector Consultants to discuss a new education initiative by the state government called "Transforming Education in Niger State, TENS".
