TEACHING OF HISTORY AS STANDALONE SUBJECT IN SCHOOLS LONG OVERDUE, PSM LAUDS FG OVER DECISION.

The attention of the Progressive Students Movement PSM NIG has been drawn to the decision of the Federal Government to implement the teaching of history in all primary and secondary schools across the country.

Information at our disposal as revealed by Mr. Sonny Echono, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education shows that the Federal Government has directed all primary and secondary schools across the country to immediately implement the teaching of history as a standalone subject from the next academic calendar.

PSM NIG wish to commend the Federal Government Of Nigeria in this regard, even though it has been long over due. We remain optimistic that the teaching Of history in schools will bring back the lost moral, religious, social, and mental values among students and youths which has been influenced by digitalization.

History as a study of past events, particularly in human affairs, will also go a long way in preparing Nigerian Students and Youths for future leadership tasks, because they already have an insight about the series of past events in the country as it has affected present either positively or negatively, aimed at projecting the future in terms of unity, peace and development.

We have no doubt that with the reintroduction of history as a standalone subject in schools the labour of our heroes past will no longer be in vain, even as this will also create additional job employments for our qualified youths!

Signed:
Comrade Okereafor Bestman Opeyemi
PSM NIG PRESIDENT
psmnig77@gmail.com