Why Almajiri Children Beg On Northern Nigeria’s Streets – Sultan

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has identified poverty and a lack of basic support as the major reasons many Almajiri children in Northern Nigeria roam the streets begging for food rather than receiving proper education.
Sultan stated this while speaking on Saturday in Gombe , at the 2026 Biennial Lecture, Dinner and Awards of the Barewa Old Boys’ Association (BOBA), themed “The Scourge of Out-of-School Children in Nigeria and the Implications for National Security and National Development.”
The Sultan said the children were not necessarily unwilling to acquire knowledge but were forced into street begging by circumstances that denied them the necessities an...