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Nutrition is one of the pioneering factors having an impact on the academic prowess of students. It is the fuel that propels a human being’s routine activities be it physical or academic. This research essay has been developed to examine the impact of nutrition, commonly recognised as a panacea towards the enhancement of children’s academic achievement. Research has proven that inadequate nutrition or nutritional imbalance inhibits normal cognitive development in students. This is attributed to the essential role of nutrition in exhibiting a direct effect on neurotransmitters, responsible for sending signals and messages from all parts of the body to the brain. This expository work aims to highlight the basic statistical figures of the current nutritional status of school-going children in India and Nigeria and the impact of Nutrition on cognition cum learning. The study also elucidates the existing nutritional policies and programs targeted at school children and throws light on its various successes and faultlines in the countries under study. It is finally followed by certain proposals and recommendations which are aimed at aiding various Governments and other nodal authorities to help ameliorate the nutrition levels of school-going children and by extension, their cognitive development