The minister of education has asked the federal government to increasingly finance Almajiri education to reduce out-of-school children rate.
Tunji Alausa, the minister of education, has asked the federal government to increasingly finance theThe Almajiri refers to a system of Islamic education predominantly practised in northern Nigeria., the female gender is Almajira, and the plural is Almajirai.Advertisement
The minister called for more funds to be allocated to the Almajiri system of education to tackle the out-of-school children crisis in the country. “We have up to 20 million out-of-school children. I met with the executive secretary of the National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-school Children who said that the 20 million was even under-quoted,” he said.
The minister called for more funding to achieve the desired goal of ensuring that out-of-school children were taken off the streets.
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