Can Tinubu’s New Almajiri Education Policy End Street Begging?

The Federal Government has unveiled a new policy to reform Almajiri education. It proposes to register and monitor learning centres, combine Qur’anic teaching with literacy and numeracy, provide vocational skills, and set minimum standards for sanitation, healthcare and learning spaces. A major provision prohibits centres from sending children onto the streets to beg. The policy also promises welfare support, including school feeding, scholarships, learning materials and assistance for facilitators. But the key question is whether these measures will be funded and sustained, especially for children from poor families who rely on begging to meet daily needs. Nigeria has tried a similar intervention before. Between 2010 and 2015, 157 Almajiri model schools were built under the Jonathan administration, but many were later abandoned or under-equipped. Tinubu’s plan goes beyond building schools by seeking to regulate the wider system, yet its success will ultimately depend on implementation by federal, state and local authorities, communities and learning-centre operators.

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