{"id":218670,"date":"2025-12-31T15:28:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-jigawas-almajiri-children-can-no-longer-be-classified-out-of-school-governor-namadi\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T15:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:28:57","slug":"nigeria-jigawas-almajiri-children-can-no-longer-be-classified-out-of-school-governor-namadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-jigawas-almajiri-children-can-no-longer-be-classified-out-of-school-governor-namadi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Jigawa&#8217;s Almajiri Children Can No Longer Be Classified Out-of-School &#8211; Governor Namadi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>The governor stated that they are now receiving basic numeracy, literacy, and entrepreneurial training comparable to students in the conventional education sector.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Governor Umar Namadi has declared that &#8216;Almajiri&#8217; children in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jigawastate.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jigawa State<\/a><\/strong> can no longer be classified as &#8220;out-of-school,&#8221; stating that they now receive basic numeracy, literacy, and entrepreneurial training comparable to students in the conventional education sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Almajiri children are children often sent to study the quran during&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512310186.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governor stated that they are now receiving basic numeracy, literacy, and entrepreneurial training comparable to students in the conventional education sector. Governor Umar Namadi has declared that &#8216;Almajiri&#8217; children in Jigawa State can no longer be classified as &#8220;out-of-school,&#8221; stating that they now receive basic numeracy, literacy, and entrepreneurial training comparable to students in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,31156,7371,22422,4269,53286,7100,48294,257,4687,393,7370,254],"class_list":["post-218670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-almajiri","tag-children","tag-classified","tag-governor","tag-jigawas","tag-longer","tag-namadi","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-outofschool","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}