Sambo calls for integration of Almajirai into education system

Vice-President Namadi Sambo says the integration of the more than 9.5 million Almajirai into Nigeria’s education system will aid the country’s educational development.

He said this on Saturday when he inaugurated Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Almajirai Bi-lingual (Model Boarding) Primary School at Maraban Gwanda in the Sabon-Garin neighbourhood of Zaria, Kaduna State.

Sambo said that the integration of the Almajirai would not only foster the country’s educational development but would also curtail drug addiction and other criminal tendencies.

He said that President Goodluck Jonathan had approved the establishment of similar Almajirai Model Schools across the northern part of the country.

He therefore called for a change of attitude by parents in the region toward the education of their children.

In his speech, Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State described education as a veritable tool for personal, societal and national growth.

He urged parents and teachers to support the state government’s efforts aimed at restoring the lost glory of education in the state.

Also speaking, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, said that the essence of the Almajirai schools was to make the pupils to become self-sufficient later in life.

Abubakar, who was represented by the Emir of Zazzaua, Alhaji Shehu Idris, solicited the construction of more of Almajirai schools to enable more Almajirai to benefit from the programme.

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