Nigeria’s Almajiri Education Gets Proposed Income-Linked Reform

What changed

Indonesian scholar Ms Abdul Rahman has proposed reforming Almajiri education in Nigeria by linking learning with income-generating activities. She pointed to Indonesia’s central bank-backed support for businesses inside Islamic boarding schools, including drinking-water production, waste recycling and biogas made from cow waste.

Why it matters

The proposal treats education and economic activity as connected rather than separate. Schools could, in principle, become places where students learn while participating in practical enterprises that generate revenue and use local resources.

That makes the idea more concrete than a general call for reform: it offers specific examples, from bottled water to recycling and biogas. But the proposal remains just that. Nigerian authorities and schools have not been reported as adopting it, and no funding, cost or timeline has been provided.