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Extreme poverty: How beggers and Almajirai paid N20/N50 To sleep in Kano Nigeria

 Kano state government in Northern Nigeria had discovered a house that charged beggers popularly known Almajirai N20/N50 to allow small children that were malingering on the street in a day to sleep.  Thus, reports said the beggers or Almajirai include females and underage children could take loan to pay to sleep in the house.  According to eye witness and BBC Reporter Khalifa Shehu Dokaji said,  the nature of the house looked like TV watching center. The state government body responsible for the arresting of beggers and Almajirai closed down the house.  However, reports have shown majority of the small children were not Almajirai but some of them ran away from their parents.  Moreover, Almajirai were beggers associated with Islamic seeking of knowledge. There were some Muslims that believed before you seek Islamic knowledge you must be Almajiri. This saying was wrong according to the majority of Muslims and nowadays is classified as child labour that was the reason why government at a

Analysis: Youths Analysis and national development in Nigeria

According to Kidadi team (2021), the future holds promises and dreams for youths that can be achieve through hard work, dedication, planning, education and the word of wisdom.  Based on the Kidadi team quotation meant the future of all countries lied on how they prepare their youths with the culture of hard work, dedication, planning, education and the wisdom's, because their youths will take over the mantle of leadership, if fail to prepare them for the future challenges their countries will have no future.  According to a report, there are over 1.8 billion young people in the world today, 90% of whom live in developing countries like Nigeria, where they tend to make up a large proportion of the population. The report added that, more than 235 million youths from India and 225 million from China alone. This means India and China made up the large population of the youths. But China prepared their youths against the future challenges by providing them with accessible education and

Child Murder: What I told Hanifa before I killed her says her abductor Abdulmalik Tanko

At exactly 11pm at night, I met her sleeping,  after I finished drinking tea, I woke her up, put a rat poison in the remaining tea I drank and gave it to her in a bobo plastic drink container, she drank.  I told her I would take her to her uncle's house. On our way to reached I gave her the poisoned drink.  We entered one part of our school, the school has two parts, she agreed to enter together after I told her I left something there, it was there she died.  I buried her in the school premises after cut her body parts into pieces, because I was not found a secured place to bury her. 

Cognitive Psychology: Cognitive Abilities and Academic performances in Nigerian Secondary schools part One

The Nigerian secondary schools both public,  community and private had been full with students of different potentialities. But most of them were hidden because they were not given the opportunity to expose themselves. Governments, private organisations have been doing lesser effort on this  that was the reason why a lot of solutions to Nigerian problems in the field of education and politics were unsolved.  According  Liu (2013), defined cognitive abilities as the abilities that require the working of human mind. This means human minds are playing vital roles in accomplishing and igniting cognitive abilities of Nigerian students.  Bloom in his Taxonomy of educational objectives, helps to express the learning outcomes in the way to reflect cognitive abilities. He identified Six skills at different levels which includes: knowledge,  comprehension, analysis, application, synthesis and evaluation.  Cognitive abilities are very important abilities which help adolescents to accomplish their