The Senate has urged the Federal Government to upgrade the existing almajiri model schools and build more to increase the number of schools enrolment, thereby reducing the number of out-of-school children on the streets.
The Senate mandated its Committee on Basic and Secondary Education to recommend means of collaborating with state governments on how to get the 14 million out-of-school children enrolled in Basic and Secondary Education Programme.
It also called on the National Orientation Agency to initiate a sensitisation programme specifically on the issue of the almajiri and its negative impacts on children in the society especially in the northern part of Nigeria.
The resolutions were sequel to a motion sponsored by Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero.
