It takes a calamity to remove a calamity, at least for us here in the North. The Almajiri problem, in all honesty, has been a more greater calamity to befall the region than any pandemic ever recorded.



According to the latest figures bandied about by various concerned groups, including UNICEF, about 10.5 million children are out of school in Nigeria. Other sources put the figure at over 13 million, majority of whom are in the North.



But for the lockdown in virtually all states of the North as part of important measures taken by the Northern Governors Forum to curtail the spread of Covid-19, our streets would have been, as usual, literally littered with groups of Almajirai, loitering and begging for alms, even on Church grounds.



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