Challenges/Opportunities  The critical challenge in the Education sector is that of adequacy of funding to address to numerous problems facing tertiary, secondary and primary education, particularly adequate facilities, laboratories, equipments to cater for the size of the students and pupils in the sector. This requires incremental budgetary allocation from the current 8.7% of the annual budget to the UNESCO standard of 26%. This low level of fiscal allocation to the sector which is below the UNESCO threshold of the total budget certainly affect the implementation of government policy on education in the country and in particular the Universal Basic Education since its inception.  Very recent opportunity to address the plight of the Almajirai children that are largely out of school is the Constitution of a National Implementation Committee on Almajirai Education Programme after the foundation laying stone of the Almajiri Model School launch in Jigawa State on December, 2010. The Committee has come out with the following documents to address the Almajiri child education: o A Strategic Plan of Action (short term 2011-2015; long term 2020); o Operational guidelines complementing the Almajiri education programme; o The workplan for the integration of 400,000 Almajirai and distribution of model schools. The above documents aim at addressing the integration of the more than 9,523,699 Almajirai across the country. A breakdown of this figure shows that: NorthEast has 2,657,767 pupils; North-West – 4,903,000 pupils; North-Central – 1,133,288; South-West- 809,317; South – East – 3,827; South-South – 18,500.  The Strategy for the Acceleration of Girls’ Education in Nigeria seeks to achieve gender parity in access to, retention, completion and achievement in basic Education by 2015 in Nigeria. 91