AsomughaChuks05:
What a stupid bill! It encourages laziness as Hausa and fulani parents won't bother to finance their children to school since the FG will take care of them with Niger Delta oil money.

DaddyFreeze2020:
Almajiris never want to go to school.
What about the many schools former President Goodluck Jonathan built for them?

Until there is a thorough plan by the Northern elites for compulsory education in the North,
Establishing an agency on Almajiri education is just to create more space for employment of more Northerners on Federal payroll.

There is also another agency for Nomadic education. Yet the nomadic Fulani's don't go to school.

Here in the North, a lot of civil servants work in different Government agencies and draw salaries from them. Some work with the State Government and Federal Government at the same time. Many Southerners won't believe such irregularities occur in the North. A whole family can be on the payroll of a government agency, and Southerners will be wondering why FG jobs are scarce.

If power does not return to the South in 2023, I pity Southerners. Only Southerners have the capacity to make things work in Nigeria. Northerners use Government power for personal pleasure.

owobokiri:
Reps approve bill to establish almajiri education commission

The House of Representatives has passed for second reading, a bill seeking to establish a ‘National Commission for Almajiri Education and Out-of-School Children’.

A member of the House from Sokoto State, Shehu Kakale, and 18 others sponsored the bill.

The legislation was titled, ‘A Bill for an Act to Establish National Commission for Almajiri Education and out of School Children to Provide for a Multimodal System of Education to tackle the Menace of Illiteracy, Develop Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Programmes, Prevent Youth Poverty, Delinquency and Destitution in Nigeria; and for Related Matters.’

The bill was passed for second reading about 24 hours after former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, warned that the over 20 million out-of-school children in Nigeria, which constitute almost 10 per cent of global statistics, were potential terrorists.

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He noted, “It is in light of the need to address this menace that this bill is proposed to the House for consideration. Its intendment is basically to establish the National Commission for Almajiri Education and Out-of-School Children to provide for a multi-modal system of education to tackle the menace of illiteracy.

“Once established, the commission shall be responsible in providing skills acquisition and entrepreneurship programmes development for children and teenagers through schools to reduce the rate of poverty, and lessen delinquency and destitution in Nigeria.

“As I draw this debate to a close, permit me to reiterate the fact that education is pivotal to human development and the growth of a nation. It was in recognition of this that Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had to build 157 Almajiri Model Schools to enable the education of the almajiris in Nigeria.

“There cannot be a functional society without a functional educational system. Accordingly, the establishment of the proposed commission will ensure that the almajiris receive sound education that will shield them from exploitation by criminal elements.”

Several members of the House, including the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, expressed their backing of the bill.

Read more here..


LINK:

https://punchng.com/reps-approve-bill-to-establish-almajiri-education-commission/

owobokiri:
Remember that The National Assembly has also passed into law, The North East Development Commission! A federal agency that collects almost 5% of all VAT accruals before tax, for the socalled "rebuilding of the north east"! Meanwhile the destruction of the North East is still ongoing! They willfully destroy and we slavishly pay for the "rebuilding".

Schools built with funds from the North East Development Commission have been destroyed by Boko Haram. The whole scheme looks like an arrogant arrangement to fiddle with endless supplies of federal funds... Now this! The same Almajiri system that northerners defend with every ounce of venom in them! They want to keep The Almajiri system running but we will all contribute to subsidize the failures of the same system!
How about that?

ItsTutsi:
All these propaganda just to paint the north black!

There are by far more southerners working in ministries, agencies, parastatals, para-military etc compared to northerners.. but u guys keep saying trash without evidence because of the hatred u have for north

Im supporting Tinubu just like many northerners, but spewing lies and trash won't help ur candidate win election

DaddyFreeze2020:



Mr. Man, nobody's talking Tinubu here. So keep shut and keep your BAT mouth sealed. What do you know about working in the civil service or any Federal agency? Are you a civil/public servant? You don't even live in the North.

No Northerners are supporting Tinubu. Stop sitting in a corner of Osogbo to analyse Northern politics

ItsTutsi:
Your highly delusional and myopic! Ur probably an Osu flat.head, i dont expect u to reason straight with the drugs u snort on

You think it's everyone that is jobless and living in poverty like u! I'm a public servant for ur information. Where I live is non of ur business!

Pandora "Anini" Him Tu Lie can never be president! We can't vote nyamiri

ItsTutsi:
Is there no South East and South West development commission!!