From El-Yakub Dabai, B/Kebbi
The Federal Government has stepped up practical measures towards reintegrating over 10 million out-of- school children who abandoned classes due to socioeconomic and cultural factors back into formal learning system in order to improve their living standards.
The Minister of State for Education, Dr. Yusuf Tanko Sununu stated this when he paid a courtesy visit to the Kebbi State Deputy Governor, Senator Umar Abubakar in Birnin Kebbii last Friday.
He said the Federal Government under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had completed arrangements to revive the activities of National Commission for Adults and Almajiri Education to ensure that out of school children including Almajiris were given quality education with skills acquisition for better society.
The Minister commended Governor Nasir Idris’s giant strides on infrastructural and other developmental projects that have direct bearing on the lives of the people in the state, noting that very soon Birnin Kebbi would wear the looks of modern State Capitals in Nigeria
In his remarks ,the Deputy Governor Senator Umar Abubakar lauded Federal Government’s initiative to bring back out of school and the Almajiri educational programme, calling on traditional and religious leaders to support the project due to the inherent benefits embedded in it
He recalled the effort he made to introduce Child Destitution Eradication Bill during his tenure in the Senate, which proposed the establishment of the Almajiri System side by side the Western Education with vocational programme and very fortunately the then President, Goodluck Jonathan signed it into law.
