Almajiri – a word which was originally used in Islam to describe people who leave their home in search of knowledge, now has a whole different meaning in northern Nigeria. In virtually every part of the north, you will find homeless children roaming the streets aimlessly, begging for food and doing all manner of child labour.

Looking at their numbers, one would wonder if they ever have parents, and surprisingly, many of them do. It’s the perfect description of the rot and poverty in the north, and definitely, the failure of Nigeria’s leaders to address this pressing need. Any erudite Nigerian knows for certain that Nigeria’s poverty index can be largely traced to the north.

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we are the ruler.
Wailers should continue.

Spot on! If Northern leaders don't do anything about this, those beggers will one day become the next Boko Haram terrorists or form new groups.

Its a shame that all this is happening right under our noses and we're looking idly at it.

funny enough they are product of many wives in the north..... Almajiri is something northern leaders can handle but they have kept quite and dnt know what to do cos they are also quality of fighting sexual immorality in their domains.....instead of seeing them as persons seeking for knowledge as Islam describe them, Almajiri are termed bastards roaming the streets of northern Nigeria. ...May God help us

I dont know why they're still practicing that thing in d north, i dont think almajiri is still practised anywhere in d world except nigeria.... how can children considered to be searching for knowledge become a destitute in d society. Those children needs school and not an illiterate imam who hasn't catered for his own children.

And funny enough, I heard children are forced to become an almajiri, left to survive on their own by begging throughout d day and still get thoroughly beaten by their islamic tutors.

They should just ban that thing, it's becoming a mayhem.

Who are the present terrorists and so called bandits making Nigeria currently uninhabitable? I think North is ninety percent of Nigeria current problems

I have always been wary of north breading potential terrorist in the name of almajiri.