Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto, says the state will not ban almajiri education system but work on remodelling it.
The almajiri system is an education process where children leave their homes in search of Islamic knowledge.
Speaking on Saturday, at the closing ceremony of a two-day workshop for the adaptation of the Indonesian Pondok system into the Almajiri-Islamiyya educational system in the state, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives said: “We are not aiming to ban the almajiri qur’anic education system as some people have urged the Sokoto state government to emulate other states,”
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“We are striving to provide reasonable solutions to the challenges and with the present initiative, the time has come.” NAN quoted him as saying.
