No fewer than 80 Almajiris have been received in Nasarawa State from Bauchi State.
The Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, made this known when he visited the state’s quarantine centre for the Coronavirus Disease at the Isa Mustapha Agwai Polytechnic in Lafia to ensure the Quranic School children and their teachers are not isolated alongside returnees from high risk states.
Sule said Almajiris who are from Nasarawa State were accompanied by their teachers to Lafia, the state capital, over 10 days ago.
He said: “Recently, we started also receiving the almajiris from the different northern states.
“So I came with the concern that we cannot mix people who are coming from the high risk areas with especially the almajiris.
“I am happy to see that we have only the almajiris that we received from Bauchi here.
“Roughly about 70 or 80 of them.
“We don’t have any returnee still here from high risk states.
“Instead, they have been moved to another location.
“I came to make sure the Almajiris are well fed and have been tested.”