By Joseph Erunke
ABUJA – TO halt the growing controversies
trailing its removal of Christians Religious Studies
and Islamic Religious Knowledge as
Independent subjects from the education
curriculum, the Federal Government, Thursday, directed that both subjects be reinstalled as
independent subjects. The government asked the Nigerian Educational
Research and Development Council, NERDC, the
country’s education body charged with the
development of school curriculum, to
immediately reinstall the two subjects where they
were before their removal. Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu,gave the
directive at a meeting with State commissioners of
education and stakeholders in education sector,
in Abuja. Christian Religious Knowledge The minister was represented by the Minister of
State for Education, Anthony Anwukah, at the
meeting aimed strengthening the partnership
within the three tiers of government in the
implementation of the Sustainable Development
Goals 4, SDG4. Speaking at the occasion, Adamu said the
restoration of the subjects to their old status was
imperative given the controversies their removal
had generated in recent times, especially the
complaint by the Christian Association of Nigeria,
CAN. He explained that the collapse of the two subjects
was done by former President Goodluck
Jonathan’s administration to reduce the number
of subjects offered by pupils and students in
schools. The minister said: “There is this controversy over
the merger of CRK and IRK in the school
curriculum. There were complaints by parents
that children were overloaded with so many
subjects and the recommendation then was to
merge one or two subjects. Unfortunately, water and oil were merged together and it is not
working. “So, to save ourselves the agony, the two
subjects should be separated. We push that to
the NERDC,” Adamu, in his address, reiterated the commitment
of the Federal Government to revamping the
education sector and appealed to state
governments as well as relevant stakeholders to
support the federal government effort. He also expressed the commitment of the
government towards achieving the SDG4 by
2030 in line with the global timeline. The minister said Nigeria has selected the Goal 4
of the SDGs, which emphasizes inclusive and
quality education for all and promotion of
lifelong learning, for implementation in view of
the importance of education as a fulcrum to
national development. He said the federal government was aware that in
the journey towards achieving the Education
2030 Agenda, key issues including the
phenomenon of out-of-school children,
insecurity in and around the schools and
infrastructure decay must be addressed. The minister said there was also the need to have
credible and reliable data, and how to address
the challenge of poor teacher quality as well as
teacher gaps, low carrying capacity in tertiary
institutions, and poor learning outcomes. “We recognize that the task of revamping the
education sector is challenging, the ministry of
education cannot do it alone. Our task is to
coordinate national efforts to meet our national
goals and objectives. “It is our believe that with good planning,
appropriate investment of resources,
transparency, due process, effective
collaboration and coordination of inputs and
activities of government and that of all
stakeholders, we will realize our vision of providing quality education to build and sustain
adequate human capital for national
development,” the minister added.

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now, peace can rain

The subtle process for broad islamization of Nigeria has failed. Thanks to PFN and others. Peace!!


Genius J

APC government always trial and error. This govt be like I dey come and I dey go.