The Federal Government has announced plans to hand over the 157 Almajiri schools that were established during the administration of former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to the nineteen northern states’ governors following their abandonment by successive governments.
Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School Children, Dr. Idris Sani, disclosed this during a signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Civil Society Action Coalition on Education for All in Yola, Adamawa State.
He explained that the commission was working with the National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS) to deploy staff to the rehabilitated schools due to the large number of schools involved.
Also speaking, the National Coordinator of the Action Coalition on Education and also the Policy Advisor, Odinaka Chimbama, said any nation that wants to develop must invest in education, but unfortunately in Nigeria, even the little being budgeted to the sector is not accounted for or properly utilized.