From Alhaji Yusuf, Damaturu Yobe State Government, through the Arabic and Islamic Education Board (YAISEB) in collaboration with the Federal Polytechnic Damaturu, has launched a six-month skills acquisition programme for 200 Almajiri…
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Investigation: How Nigeria’s Kano State Hisbah Rounded Up Street Children for a Rehabilitation Centre—Left Them in Limbo
By Mariya Shuaibu Suleiman Abubakar remembers the night everything changed. The corridor where he slept was quiet, the kind of silence only street children learn to trust. Then a hand tapped him…
Insecurity And Challenges Of The North West
By Abdu Labaran Malumfashi When you do not have much to do with your time except to pray, eat, take your medicine and lay down, one but has all the time in…
Jigawa Govt, UNICEF Enroll 150 Almajiri, Out-of-School Girls into Formal Education
From Mika’il Tsoho, Dutse In a significant step towards promoting education and reducing out-of-school children, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Jigawa State Ministry of Women Affairs have enrolled 150…
Jigawa High Court sentences man to life imprisonment for sodomizing 2 ‘Almajiri pupils’
The Jigawa State High Court No. 6, sitting in Birnin Kudu presided by His Lordship Justice Musa Ubale, on Thursday, 23rd day of November, 2023, convicted and sentenced one Israfilu Sagiru, (m),…