Etrise Ogunlesi is an economist and writer based in Nigeria. He has spent the past few days reporting on a school system that uses religious teachers to teach boys how to read, write and pray. The children are often forced to beg for food or small change while they learn their faith's holy book almagry. Andan: "It's really pathetic to the honest... They have very little access to food"
America’s federal government will spend hundreds of billions of dollars
cancelling student-loan debt—fulfilling a long-standing progressive wish. But while it may be good politics, the policy rationale makes less sense. Too many Nigerian children are sent to beg on the streets by their religious teachers. And celebrating the music and
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