Often, most of them stray and never return to the ‘school’. They scavenge for sustenance and would do anything and the bidding of just anyone to stay alive,
The army of young and teenage boys roaming the streets of the northern states seems to increase in bounds. They are known as, which, according to Wikipedia, can be translated to mean persons who leave their homes in search of Islamic knowledge. Western educational system has not been able to supplant this age-old itinerant system of education in the north.
Efforts to address this scourge have been on-going for quite some time, though they may not have gained the required momentum. Most notable was the spirited attempt by the President Goodluck Jonathan administration to integrate the almajiris into structured learning systems which sought to fuse both the western and Islamic systems.
Unfortunately, most of these schools are said to lay waste today. They are said to be abandoned and overgrown by weeds in most cases. Though many state governments in the north claim otherwise and indeed point to their efforts at sustaining the peculiar educational needs of the street boys.
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