President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is committed to building on his predecessors' legacy in tackling the menace of almajiri and out-of-school children across the country.
This is through providing necessary support to the National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School Children Education (NCAOOSE), said Hon. Sha’aban Sharada.
Sharada, the Executive Secretary (ES) of the Commission, disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the Head Office of Image Merchants Promotion Limited (IMPR), publishers of PRNigeria and Economic Confidential, among other titles, in Abuja.
Sharada said they have carried out preliminary studies to uncover what has been preventing their Commission from fulfilling its mandate.
"President Goodluck Jonathan's administration embarked on a programme to infuse the western education curriculum into the Islamic education system, so as to make the pupils more employable and to curb insecurity, but the initiative performed below expectation.
"What we realise is that the low performance of the programme was due to the absence of a constitutional mandate. There was an initiative, but no establishment or organisation backed by the National Assembly or national law to manage its activities. With the bill signed by former President Muhammadu Buhari, we have that now, hence we cannot fail," he added.
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