Section 16: Establishment of Almajiri and Out of School Children Education Centres.

(1) The Commission shall establish Almajiri and Out of School Children Education Centers at such place as the Commission may determine.
(2) Every Almajiri and Out of School Children Education Centre (in this Act referred to as "the Centre”) shall be responsible to the Commission.
(3) The Commission shall conduct research into almajiri and out of school children lifestyles, including their occupations, the role of parents' economic activities, migratory patterns, and their demographic distributions, relationship with sedentary community populations and attitudes to education, experimental education methodologies and evaluate programmes relating to skill acquisition and entrepreneurship.
(4) The Nigeria Educational Research and Development Council and National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies shall prepare such data as may be required by it to develop-
(a) the curriculum for almajiri and out of school children;
(b) reading and teaching materials;
(c) teacher training programmes; and
(d) resource materials.
(5) The Commission shall prepare from any other sources, such data as may be required by it to-
(a) develop and maintain almajiri and out of school children teacher training programmes; and
(b) develop and maintain almajiri and out of school children outreach programmes, including electronically mediated ones, and to do this in collaboration with other Centres as well as other institutions, such as the National Teachers Institute and the National Education Technology Centre.