The Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Ministry has earmarked one million pupils for their deworming programme.
This was made known in Abuja on Monday by the National Coordinator, National Social Investments Programme (NSIP), Umar Bindir.
The event was in respect to the “Planning Meeting and Development of Information Education Communication (IEC) Materials.”
According to the ministry, “As we are feeding them, there is also the need for us to deworm them so that the food could work properly in their system in order to improve their health conditions.
“We will be doing this regularly because some of the food items might have some chemical agents or germs in them. So if we deworm them, they will be healthier, while their brains will function better,” Mr Bindir said.
The Ministry added that the programme will cover pupils from Primary One to Primary Six, particularly those in public schools.
