Senate To FG: Build More Almajiri Schools To Reduce Street Begging - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 11, 2020
TheSenate has urged the Federal Government to upgrade the existing almajiri modelschools and build more to increase the number of schools enrolment, therebyreducing the number of out-of-school children on the streets.
TheSenate mandated its Committee on Basic and Secondary Education to recommendmeans of collaborating with state governments on how to get the 14 millionout-of-school children enrolled in Basic and Secondary Education Programme.
Italso called on the National Orientation Agency to initiate a sensitisationprogramme specifically on the issue of the almajiri and its negative impacts onchildren in the society especially in the northern part of Nigeria.
Theresolutions were sequel to a motion sponsored by Senator Muhammad Adamu Aliero.