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Coronavirus spurs crackdown on Nigeria Quran schools where children fend for themselves | News24

Two dozen boys read verses of the Quran aloud on the dilapidated veranda of one of the thousands of informal Islamic schools studding northern Nigeria's biggest city Kano.

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