INTEGRATING ALMAJIRI SYSTEM OF EDUCATION WITH CONVENTIONAL EDUCATION: A STIMULUS FOR PEACE AND SECURITY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA

Peace

The efforts to integrate the almajiri system of education with conventional system is an age long policy thrust in Nigeria. It concerns the Northern Nigeria which has the exclusive practice of Almajir system. There are palpable frustrations confronting the assimilation of the integration. With the deviation from the actual doctrinal practice of seeking Qu’ranic knowledge, the exercise somewhat takes a differential dimension where the Almajirai are abused and brainwashed. This inculcates irreligious doctrines thereby making them susceptible to extremism and available for use by Islamic terrorist group. The study uses Pierre Bourdieu’s (1973) cultural and social reproduction theory. The study recommends that, Education being in the concurrent legislative list, the Federal and the States Governments of the Northern Nigeria should consolidate and intensify the hitherto efforts in integrating Almajiri system of education with the conventional system. Northern states should leverage on the repatriation of Almajiri to their states of origin occasioned by Covid-19 pandemic. This will ensure a stoppage in dissuading the Almajiri to join violent groups thereby making a peaceful and guaranteed security in Northern Nigeria.

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