In a bid to end the menace of Out-of-School-Children popularly called 'Almajiri" on 22nd July 2019, Kano state Governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje took the bull by the horn by constituting a Technical Committee to review and reposition the Almajiri system of education in the State.
The Committee is tasked to fashion out ways of integrating the Almajiri system into the mainstream curriculum-based education system that complies with international best practice as manifested in other climes especially, Arab-Muslim countries.
The Governor stressed that the new initiative will checkmate the menace of street begging among Almajiris in the State. Quoting from the Governor's statement “with the recent pronouncement of free and compulsory primary and secondary schools education, this new development would, among other things, integrate Qur’anic schools with mainstream Government-controlled schools where English, Mathematics, Hygiene education, among others would form part of the curriculum for the identified Almajiri schools.”
More so, the committee headed by Dr Muhammad Tahir Adam has other members as; Gwani Yahuza, Gwani Saleh Dan Zarga, immediate past Executive Chairman of Kano State Qur’anic and Islamiyyah Schools Management Board. Other members are from the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Ministry of Education, traditional institutions, Qur’anic teachers of great repute both nationally and internationally, and other critical stakeholders.
Speaking after constituting the committee, Dr Adam assured the Governor of their dedication and commitment to the confidence reposed in them, noting that” We will do our best to deliver in accordance with Islam, both in practice and in the application.”
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