Effects of Pictorial Integrated Technology and Cooperative Learning Strategies onPupils' Academic Performance in Social Studies in Katsina State, Nigeria. Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of Pictorial integrated technology and cooperative learning strategies on pupil's academic performance in Social Studies. Methods: Five hypotheses were raised for the study. The study adopted pretest and posttest quasi experimental design with one hundred and twenty basic two pupils which consists sixty-two males and fifty-eight females. Social studies performance test, pictorial-integrated technology questionnaire, and cooperative learning strategy questionnaire were developed by the researchers. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and analysis of covariance at 0.05 level of significance. Findings: Pictorial integrated technology and cooperative learning strategies enhance pupil's academic performance in Social Studies when effectively utilized in the classroom. Conclusion: Pictorial integrated technology and cooperative learning strategies has more effects on basic two pupils' academic performance in Social Studies than lecture method.

School feeding programme is an important aspect of child’s cognitive development. Home-grown school feeding is an intervention programme designed for school aged children in order to eradicate hunger, increase enrolment, improve pupils’ nutritional value and pupils’ cognitive development whereas these objectives have not be achieved. Therefore, aim of the study is to holistically review the challenges faced in the implementation of home-grown school feeding programme among primary school pupils in Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Mali) and ways of solving these challenges. The paper also reviewed the concept of home-grown school feeding and its challenges. A qualitative research design of systematic search strategy type was used to gathered information in different databases and journals. In the course of the study, the researchers discovered that the programme is faced with the issues of corruption due non- remittance of regular fund to the school vendors and underfunding of the programmes. Other penitent issues include: low and inadequate storage facilities, political interferences, inadequate nutritional meals and low level of implementation. The researchers recommended that caterers should be trained by dieticians on the type of food to prepare for pupils’ and also government should set up a monitoring team to supervise the home-grown school feeding programme for proper implementation in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Mali and other Sub-Sahara Africa Countries.