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Nigeria: Senate Wants Almajiri Education Integrated Into Formal System
Daily Trust, 22 July 2020
The Senate on Tuesday urged the Ministry of Education to intensify its sensitization and engagement of traditional and religious scholars on the plight of Almajiris, and the need… Read more »
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Nigeria: Fake Degrees, Almajiri and Nigeria's Underdevelopment
Daily Trust, 15 July 2020
The issue of almajiri is very much with us. The issue of fake degrees originating from southern Nigeria, like COVID-19 is also very much with us. The issue of underdevelopment of… Read more »
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Nigeria: Sokoto Rep Pushes for Reform of Almajiri System
Daily Trust, 8 July 2020
The member representing Bodinga/Dange-Shuni Federal Constituency of Sokoto State says he is pushing for the reform of the almajiri system of education to ensure sanity of the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Kaduna Evacuates 35,000 Almajirai, Receives Over 1,000 - Commissioner
Daily Trust, 23 June 2020
The Kaduna State Government has evacuated 35,000 Almajirai children to 17 states and some neighbouring countries. Read more »
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Nigeria: Almajiris Are 'Victims' of Northern Muslim Elite - Kukah
Premium Times, 10 June 2020
The almajiris in Northern Nigeria have been "sinned against" and denied opportunities for social progress by the region's Muslim elite, Catholic cleric, Hassan Kukah, has said. Read more »
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Nigeria: Okorocha Hits At Northern Governors Over Almajiri
Vanguard, 2 June 2020
Senator Rochas Okorocha has stood in defense of the Almajiri, insisting that Northern Governors have been unfair in their dealings with the child urchins. Read more »
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Nigeria: Parents Who Enrol Children Into Almajiri System Risk Jail - El-Rufai
Premium Times, 25 May 2020
Governor Nasir El-Rufa'i of Kaduna State has warned that parents who enrol their children into the Almajiri education system stand the risk of prosecution and up to two years jail. Read more »
Nigerian Senate Wants Almajiri Absorbed Into Formal Education
The Almajiri is a system of Islamic education practised in northern Nigeria, where children are sent by their parents to live with and study Quranic education with a teacher. It has been found that children within this religious schooling system end up as beggars on the streets of Nigerian cities and towns, and that their parents are none-the-wiser to their plight. With the onset of the novel Coronavirus pandemic, the childrens' wellbeing has come to the attention of authorities who have controversially "repatriated" thousands of children back to their homes, for fear that they would contract, or spread the virus. Now the Senate is calling for the Almajiri religious education system to be incorporated into the mainstream state education system.
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