Integrating the Skills Edifice of Curriculum into Almajiri Education in 21st Century Northern Nigeria
*1Yusuf Danladi Mohammed, 2Tanimu Adamu Ibrahim & 3Magaji Shehu
*1,2&3College of Education, Faculty of Educational Foundations, Federal University Dutsin-ma, Katsina – Nigeria. Emails: yusufdanladimado5@gmail.com1, tanimuai@gmail.com2, & magajishehu5018@gmail.com3
Cite this as: Mohammed, Y. D., Ibrahim, T. A., & Shehu, M. (2026). Integrating the Skills Edifice of Curriculum into Almajiri Education in 21st Century Northern Nigeria. Rima International Journal of Education, 5(2), 84—101. DOI: https://doi.org/10.65760/rijessu.v5.2.7
Abstract
This paper attempts an in-depth study as well as critical analysis of Amajiri education system in the 21st century Northern Nigeria, with a particular emphasis upon areas in which its curriculum needs improvements and innovations. It equally underscored the governments’ efforts at integrating Almajiri education in Universal Basic Education program and the causative organisms for the failure of government’s integration program. And therefore the predicaments of Almajiri seem to have been lingering year-by-year, partly due to propound deficiency of vocational / entrepreneurship development skills within the framework of Almajiri education. Related literature was reviewed. Document analysis method was adopted for the study. The findings revealed that integration program enhances efficiency of Almajiri education system by striking balance among the acquisition of Qur’anic knowledge, moral development and accomplishing economic self-reliance / employability. And the researcher suggested that Federal, state and the local governments in Nigerian should look into the need to integrate the entrepreneurship / vocational skills enshrined in National Policy on Education in the curriculum of Almajiri School as response to the vocational challenges which strangulate the program from contributing to Nigeria’s national unity and national development.
Keywords
Integration, Skills, curriculum, Almajiri Education, 21st Century
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