Two dozen boys read verses of the Koran aloud on the dilapidated veranda of one of the thousands of informal Islamic schools studying northern Nigeria's biggest city Kano.
Many street children in the northern Nigerian city of Kano are enrolled in informal Islamic schools which force youngsters to beg, say critics
But critics have long condemned the institutions for squalid conditions, forcing children to beg and denying them a proper education. “We are prohibiting that system. We want every child to be with his parents,” Kano governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai explained recently during a virtual conference on the issue.
For generations it has been tradition in Muslim-majority northern Nigeria for parents to send their sons from as young as six to local clerics to learn the Koran. They often sleep rough or on the floors of the overcrowded dormitories provided by their teachers with poor or no sanitation.
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