President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a crackdown on illegally-operated Islamic schools in northern Nigeria after hundreds of boys were rescued from so-called reformatory centres, where they were reportedly chained to walls, beaten and abused. Authorities described conditions as "places of horror".
Social media in Nigeria has been awash with graphic images from so-called "Almajiris" in Katsina metropolis, Kaduna, Kano and in president Buhari's home town of Daura.
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