How Jigawa is building on derided federal initiative to address almajiri challenge
When former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration introduced modern Tsangaya schools in 2012 to absorb out-of-school children—commonly referred to as ‘Almajirai’—across northern Nigeria, Alaramma Illiyasu was among conservative Islamic clerics who fiercely rejected the initiative. They feared...
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