School Feeding Programme in Nigeria: The Nutritional Status of Pupils in a Public Primary School in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria

Falade, O.S.; Olusegun Otemuyiwa, Israel; Oluwasola, Oluwemimo; Oladipo, Wale; A. Adewusi, Steve

doi:10.4236/fns.2012.35082

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School Feeding Programme in Nigeria: The Nutritional Status of Pupils in a Public Primary School in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria

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Authors:

O.S. Falade

Israel Olusegun Otemuyiwa

Oluwemimo Oluwasola

Abstract

About 7.3 million children are estimated to be out of school in Nigeria; majority of them are girls. The Federal Gov-ernment school feeding programme is to provide one meal per school day to all primary school pupils in Nigeria with the objectives of improving the health of school age children, incr...

Subject

Anthropometry

Malnutrition

Medicine

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