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Sambo Affirms Completion Of More Almajiri Schools

Vice President Namadi Sambo has announced the completion of 124 Almajiri schools in northern part of the country and promised that the government would hand … Continue reading Sambo Affirms Completion Of More Almajiri Schools


Vice President Namadi Sambo has announced the completion of 124 Almajiri schools in northern part of the country and promised that the government would hand over the schools in the next few months despite calls by the Senate that the Almajiri systems be scrapped by northern governors.

The Vice President made this known at the presentation of the 2012 Federal Ministry of Education, annual report by the Minister of Education, Ruqayyatu Rufai, in Abuja.

He said that the Almajiri schools, the establishment of federal universities in all states of the federation, the high budgetary allocation to the sector are part of strategies by the government to boost education to correct the problems bedeviling the country.

Not until 2012 when the federal government waded in with the commissioning of the Almajiri model school to ensure equal access to education, alms begging was the only means of survival for underprivileged children in the northern part of the country.

The Almajiri system has scores of children with torn clothes and unwashed faces, moving in groups with their wooden tablets and bowls across cities, begging for alms to feed and live on as each day passes by.

Over 1o million such children are estimated to be out of school and this is what the federal government seeks to address with numerous strategies put in place by the government with the Almajiri model school, to incorporate the kids into the nation’s education system.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education, Senator Uche Chukwumerije, recently expressed concerns over state government’s commitment towards the smooth running of the Almajiri programme after the state of emergency were declared in three north-east states.