Almajiri Education: FG Votes N793m In Kano, Oyo, Seven Other States - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
October 28, 2019
The federal governmenthas voted 793 million naira to restart the Integrated Almajiri, Qur’anic andnon-formal schools into formal education in ten states.
The new pilot projectis expected to take no fewer than 10 million out-of-school children who aremostly Almajiris off the streets to acquire education and skills.
The government saidthat the existing Almajiri/Tsangaya schools lack vocational skills. The pilottest will take off in nine states, eight of them in the north and Oyo State inthe south.
The other states areKano, Katsina, Sokoto, Niger, Adamawa, Bauchi, Yobe and Jigawa.
The new project willbe implemented by the Federal Ministry of Education through the Universal BasicEducation Commission in collaboration with state Ministries of Education, StateUniversal Basic Education Boards SUBEBs and the National Board for Arabic andIslamic Studies.
The government hasvoted 416 million naira for the project in 2019, 329.3 million naira in 2020,36 million naira in 2021 and 11.7 million naira by 2022.