The Federal
Government called for immediate dis-articulation of social studies in
the current curriculum of basic schools and reintroduction of history as
a subject.
Adamu Adamu, Nigeria’s minister of
education, said this in Abuja while addressing delegates at the 61st
Meeting of the National Council on Education Ministerial Session.
He appealed to the council to consider
making the study of Christian Religious Knowledge and the study of
Islamic Religious Knowledge compulsory for both Christians and Muslims
to the end of Senior Secondary School.
Adamu said reintroduction of history as a
subject on its own in basic schools will give the Nigerian child a self
identity on who they really are. He added that Nigeria owes both the
present and future generations the responsibility of removing all
inhibitions against opportunities of acquiring morals and ethics as
taught in the religious traditions.
According to him, “It is only the study
of history, our own history that can explain and give meaning to our
very humanity and that is why we must study it and teach our little
ones, it is also not enough that they merely know who they are,we must
teach them about their God, since it is said that if you want to destroy
any nation it is either first the family is destroyed, then the
education is destroyed and the third the social morals be destroyed and
in Nigeria we owe both the present and future generations the
responsibility to remove all inhibitions against making our children
acquire morals and ethics.”
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