Ashiat Meikudi

Nov 29, 2024 | primeprogressng.com | Ashiat Meikudi

“From morning till evening, we move around the streets to look for what to eat and come back only when we find food to continue our evening studies,” Nazir said solemnly. In Northern Nigeria, a long-standing tradition sends young children to tsangaya schools to acquire Qur’anic knowledge under the care of Islamic scholars known as mallams.

Oct 9, 2024 | primeprogressng.com | Ashiat Meikudi

For Abdulateef Halimah, life became a harrowing ordeal after her husband’s passing in April 2021. Before his death, Halimah’s daughter had been enrolled at Kwara State University or KWASU in North Central, Nigeria. Halimah’s modest income was never sufficient to cover her children’s school fees alone. However, her husband’s supplemental income had previously helped alleviate this financial burden.

Sep 29, 2024 | campusreporter.africa | Ashiat Meikudi

Wandering the streets every morning with an empty bottle in one hand and a plastic bowl of food hanging in the other is one of the characteristics of Kabiru Denderi, a 12-year-old out-of-school boy in Sokoto, North West Nigeria. He is one of the many children left to suffer by their parents after leaving  Arabic school every morning. While the males among them are called Almajiri, the females are Almajira, and the plural is Almajirai.

Mar 5, 2024 | tribuneonlineng.com | Ashiat Meikudi

Maryam Soliu, 75, sat down on a wooden chair as she monitored  and supervised the running of activities in her local Garri store at Shamsudeen Community, Ilorin East local government area of Kwara State. Before the crush on the economy,  the business of Garri was the only inclined business she could hop into— the huge profit and her achievement in the business has given her no fondness in any other business.