A recent research has revealed that
70 percent of the nine million almajiris who engage in street begging across
Nigeria are from north west geo-political zone.
The Dean of Post Graduate School, Nigerian
Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna, Professor Ahmed Adam Okene, who disclosed this
during a workshop on street begging yesterday in Minna, also noted that 30
percent of children in Northern Nigeria were out of school and engaged in
street begging. The state government had organised the workshop to seek solutions
to the problem of street begging in the state.
