I posted an article on Nigeria's  Almajiri problem almost a year ago.  Little did I know that the problem was much bigger than I thought and that the time bomb was just about to go off.  Here is the post again.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-653197.0.html

And here is an excerpt from the post.

"A forlorn murmur of young voices echoes from a shack pieced together from rusted corrugated iron.  Inside more than 50 children with torn clothes and unwashed faces hunch over small wooden tablets or torn scraps of paper with sections of the Quran.  Above them stands a 20 year old with a small whip -  the children are here to memorize the Quran.  They are the Almajiri.  On the walls hang small bags with few belongings.  In these dark cramped conditions, the children must study, sleep and eat.

Council officials warn that the consequences of ignoring the children could be dire.  "They are a real threat - a real problem - to the society unless you address this issue now said Usman Jibrin the council's president.  "Otherwise, these children will one day take over control of this country - in a very unpleasant way"


One only hopes that the Nigerian government can at last acknowledge and accept that it has a real problem on its hands and start doing something about a humanitarian crisis that it has ignored for too long, while looting billions from the public purse.