By Suzan Edeh
Over million Quar’anic Almajirai schools has been registered in the country by federal Government of Nigeria, especially in the Northern states for a formal combined Islamiyya and Western education school system.

Governor Isa Yuguda, who disclosed this Thursday when he launched the exercise of newly established Bauchi Muslims Grave Yard, said the policy is to discard the roaming about of almajirai on streets in our cities and provide them qualitative education.

He said the policy would entail building of Qur’anic schools, hostels, teacher’s accommodation as well as all other necessary facilities to making teaching and leaving conducive.

Yuguda said that contracts for building of 37 Qur’anic schools indifferent parts of the country has already been awarded by the federal government while contracts for the building of additional 100 schools this year would soon be awarded.

Governor Isa Yuguda, who revealed that a land measuring 137.5 hectares was acquired by the state government to provide a final abode for the departing souls, added that government will provide modern facilities in the new grave yard and that the sum of about N80 million would be expended in the provision of accessible roads, drainages, and culverts, body washing bowls, boreholes, standard mosque and others facilities for the new grave yard.

While stating that government in collaboration with the Bauchi LGA would provide corpse conveying vehicles for the wards in Bauchi metropolis to facilitate easy movement of bodies to the grave yard, the governor further revealed that, “the sum of N20 million has already been paid as compensation to owners of the land and cheques for N19 million for the balance payment of the compensation is ready for collection by the land owners”.