The Nigerian government has reacted to the controversy over alleged removal of key religious subjects from the country’s education curriculum.

The acting Executive Secretary of Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), Kate Nwufo, denied claims that Christian Religious Studies and Islamic Studies had been removed from the curriculum, or were now studied as a single subject.

“We have developed a curriculum on Religion and National Values to expose pupils to see relationship between moral values – which entails religion, social values – and civic values,” Mrs. Nwufo said.

She said the NERDC developed the curriculum in partnership with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission.

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, the country’s largest Christian body, had claimed that CRS, specifically, had been dropped from the latest curriculum, leaving only Islamic studies.

“If you look at the curriculum, you will see that the religious subjects were removed for unknown reasons,” President of CAN, Samson Ayokunle, had said in an interview....

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