NAF feeds 1,000 pupils in IDPs camps

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Nigerian Air Force has begun daily feeding of 1,000 school pupils in Internally Displaced Peoples Camps in Dalori and Bama, Borno State.
NAF’s spokesperson, Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya said the work was part of NAF renewed efforts to promote primary school education among disadvantaged pupils.

He said: “At the simultaneous flag-off of the feeding programme at both camps on 28 June 2017, the NAF Chief of Medical Services, Air Vice Marshal Saleh Shinkafi, who represented the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), stated that the programme would entail the provision one meal daily to five hundred school children each from both Dalori and Bama IDP camps.
“Accordingly, a total of thousand children daily would benefit from the programme every day for the next six to eight months.

He further stated that the CAS, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, mooted the idea of the school feeding scheme so as to reduce malnutrition among the pupils in order to give them the opportunity to live and also go to school. According to him, the programme, which could be extended depending on the availability of resources, would provide assistance and succour to the children and complement the efforts of the Federal and State Governments.
Adesanya said the Commander of NAF’s 105 Composite Group in Maiduguri, Air Commodore Tajudeen Yusuf said the programme would contribute to the survival of the generation of pupils in the IDP camps to enable them contribute positively to the nation in the future.
“The Headmistress of Dalori Camp 1 Primary School, where the programme started, Mrs. Yapati Sanda, thanked the NAF for the kind gesture and stated that this singular action would encourage many pupils that had dropped out of school to resume classes,” he said.

NAF’s spokesperson also said Master Warrant Officer Enem Theophilus Aniemeka of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has emerged the overall best graduating doctorate student at the Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State.
He said the award was presented to the NAF personnel during the University’s graduation ceremony, which held on 4 June 2017.
“MWO Aniemeka graduated with the highest Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.67 to receive the award,” he said.

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