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The revised basic education curriculum (BEC) has been operational since September 2014 and the contentious subject, Religion and National Values has been on the curriculum since then.

In fact the forward of the subject textbook I sighted sometime last year was signed off by Professor Ruqayyah Rufai and Barrister Nyesom Wike who were both Ministers of Education in the last administration.

The link below is to a scholarly article on the review of the BEC and as you can clearly see, Religion and National Values is listed in Table 2(a). Lower Basic Education Curriculum and on Table 2(b). Middle Basic Education Curriculum as one of the subjects (Numbers 5 and 6 respectively) on the revised list of subjects in the curriculum that came into operation in September 2014.

http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/3/1/7/

Religion and National Values was introduced to the curriculum with the best of intentions and if we could all just get over our religious bigotry for a second, I am sure we will all see the merits of raising a generation of children who know the basics of other religions apart from theirs.

Sometimes a little research saves us all the undue heating up of the polity.

Yes.

BossWike:
It will never be well with all APC families for all these their barbaric acts

All these never happened under PDP, yet they are screaming to be fighting corruption.

2019 pls do and come!

Yeah, all these never happened under PDP.

Under PDP, youths were railroaded into stadia across the country in the name of immigration recruitment and over 20 of them were trampled to death.

It is wrong for Mr. Aribisala to posit that there is no war on corruption simply because he feels the bulk of people under fire are members of the PDP.

The question he should be asked is whether the targeted individuals are corrupt or not.

Is a confirmed thief any less guilty of a crime because the court that tried him was headed by a judge who is himself alleged to be a thief?

Is a thief less guilty of a crime because his colleagues with whom he carried out the crime are still at large?

Corruption in Nigeria is deeply entrenched and it would be quite an uphill task trying to change the situation under a democratic system of government. The wheel of justice turn very slowly but one thing that is obvious is that all accused will get their day in court.

We do not have it all together yet. But frankly, I do not think we should wait till we do or else we might have to wait for life.

In saner climes, when one hears a story like a Governor and his deputy exchanging slaps publicly or even privately, the natural initial reaction is one of disbelief and dismiss it with a wave of the hand. At least until further investigations show it is true.

Not so in Nigeria.

In Nigeria, the more ridiculous the tale, the easier it is for people to swallow it, hook, line and sinker...even without any concrete evidence.

What is worse is that even when the parties involved come out to debunk the story, some people will continue to insist it is true perhaps out of hate for the people involved or a twisted part of them that wishes the worst for others.

Nigeria ia a strange country.

So according to Governor Wike and the people that spoke to him, it makes more sense to abandon a project that has allegedly gulped so much, rather than finish the job and put it to use.

That project would upgrade the economic status of the state, improve aesthetics, provide jobs for River 's people, etc.

All of that is going to be sacrificed on the altar of personal political differences?

What then happens to all of the money allegedly spent so far on the project?

That does not sound to me like a very well thought out plan.

Well security agencies have urged Nigerians to remain alert so they are also not carried away by the video apparently.

obiremy:
Many Nigerians did not find it funny when they a picture of a man paying obeisance to Lara Oshiomole surfaced online.According to an Esan by birth reader who sent the photo and reactions to me,it is a shameless act.He wrote.....

'It is obvious that we have some people with tumors in their brains,thereby making their brains function anticlockwisely.I am an African man and an Esan man by birth. If this shameless, useless and poverty sticking man were to be my father (God forbids) I will stone him to death
This isn't Courtesy!
But stupidity, and POVERTY INDUCED MADNESS'.

Read how other people reacted above

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/03/edo-people-react-as-man-pay-obeisance.html

We Nigerians have a knack for making a mountain out of nothing.

To think you wrote this long essay because a man bowed to someone younger than him?

What is so strange about that? Africans, especially Nigerians have a tendency to show respect to people who are older, or people they consider higher than them in social or financial status.

When I am put in those situations where an older person greets me with such respect, it is pretty embarassing to me. But it is just the way most of us, especially the older generation, are wired. It happens every day.

Can the OP honestly claim he has never been hailed by a much older person either at work or at business?

sexyexcalibur:
Soldiers have been deployed?

Mhen, may God save you from your lies....

http://dailypost.ng/2016/03/12/agatu-crises-fg-sends-soldiers-to-benue/

http://newtelegraphonline.com/soldiers-reclaim-agatu-communities-herdsmen-retreat/

Mhen, may God save you from your ignorance....

It wont hurt you to open a newspaper and read once in a while you know.

sexyexcalibur:
rivers state election deserves the presence of soldiers in their large numbers ...

but the agatu massacre where more than 300 people including pregnant women and children where butchered did not deserve a single soldier


if you support this injustice... on your day of trouble, you will not find any help...

you will look for help,but you will not see and your persecutors will not be brought to justice as well...

Stop this kind of nonsense talk and think!

The unfortunate massacre in Agatu happened suddenly. The fulani herdsmen struck without notice and since that happened, soldiers have been deployed in Benue to restore order.

On the other hand, the PH elections have been on the front burner since the original elections. It has been violence all the way, the most recent trend is the incessant assassinations across the city.

We read reports almost on a daily basis in the last week about how both Governor Wike and Minister Amaechi have been throwing threats at each other over the upcoming by-elections.

Do you seriously expect any serious government to sit back and allow elections degenerate into war? I can bet that you will be on the band wagon of people that will criticise the government for failing to secure lives and property in PH if they fail to do so.

How much tension was in Ekiti State during the last gubernatorial elections that made the previous government deploy troops to that state? Did you find it necessary to issue curses on yourself then like you are doing now?

ShowYourCertificate:
And what makes you so confident that the SITUATION he meant was just that of the exchange rate? It seems you also inherited the lying gift from Lai the Lier.

Read the excerpt again. Lai mentioned the SITUATION that's affecting the free fall of the naira. He talked about balance of trade, export/import, fall in crude price. All these are the SITUATION leading to the free fall of the naira and the poor economy. And he said this is beyond the President's control. The SITUATION here is a totality of the forces affecting the economy not just an aspect of it as you claim.

So you see, you lied just like Lai. And you didn't even lie well. You should have said SITUATION meant fall in crude price rather than exchange rate. How can you say the exchange rate is beyond the control of the president? That means you're suggesting he's incompetent in boosting the value of the naira. Well, I agree with you on that.

What are you on about pls?

...and you got 151 likes

Progressive01:
Good day Nigerians.

Some of us have long lost the zeal to create threads on this board because of the activity of some mod who appears to have sworn to ensure only one narative is promoted on here.

I'm not sure the motive behind this as most of the avid supporters of the current regime on the forum are serving one lengthy ban or another while some people who claim not to be "Nigerians" and have sworn to bring the country to her knees are allowed to roam free spreading secessionist propaganda and hate speeches against some tribes, religion and region in blatant disregard for the Rules of the Forum.

I have come to the realisation, and accepted the fact that some people would see anything good in Buhari's admin over their dead bodies and the reasons for this aren't fat fetched even as they are unjustifiable:

1. He is a Muslim.

2. He is from the North.

3. He is a Fulani man.

4. He is a member of APC.

5. He defeated their referred candidate in an election.

6. He has sworn to hold the immediate past admin responsible for its actions.

Now, every living human being has an inalienable prerogative to bear whatever character they imagine best suits their purpose in life, but when societal norms are to be taken into consideration, one cannot but question the character of certain persons as they run afoul of what is morally acceptable.

When one becomes an ardent "flip flopper" whose character easily changes shape like the mortar on a porter's wheel, such a person becomes an agent of destabilisation against whom voices of reason should speak out.

I was leisurely taking a stroll on the board when I came across a thread and upon opening it, I couldn't believe the epic lies contained therein. Right from the first sentence the writer tried to twist the mind of the reader to subdue any chances of them forming unbiased opinions about his position on events as the relate to the current government as he went in an interview with Qatari Aljazeera during his
not-so-fruitful trip to Qatar.. The questions someone with an independent mind would ask are:

Who is the Op to tell us about the success or otherwise of the President's trip?? Is he privy to some privileged info not in the public domain?? On what scale is "fruitfulness" of a foreign trip measured?? What are the indices that show how "not-so-fruitful" a foreign trip is?? Is there a specific time frame within which one measures this success and outside of which whatever gains that come thereof is null and void ??

But just as expected, most of the commentators who first arrived on the thread, a people who once loathed the Op with such raw passion in the not-so-distant-past and at some point called for his head- a situation that resulted in him stating how much they hate him on his signature- happened to be the ones cheering him for such a "marvellous" thread!! They cared less the obvious lies from the op as long as the thread is anti Buhari and anti APC.

Encouraged by knack for turning truth on its head and sometimes getting away with it, this same poster who has stated on here on countless occasions what a failure Mr Jonathan was went ahead to assert that Mr Jonathan handed an El dorado to Buhari and Buhari didn't inherit any problems from his predecessor!!

This has got to be the biggest and most audacious LIE anyone in our politicospare has ever told!

Now, let us take a brief trip down memory lane and see what a Utopia Jonathan handed over to Buhari:

1. Fuel Supply



2. Electricity Supply



3. Security.

This item especially needs no references as we are all aware of what the situation was as opposed to what it is today. The fact the previous government sat on its oars all along only to be jolted to act in the last days leading up to the general elections when the reality of the possibility of losing the election was staring them in the face bears testament to what a failure it was when it came to securing the lives of Nigerians.

Boko Haram in the North, Kidnappers and robbers in the South, Ombatse in the North Central, etc, were all having a time of their lives as the government slumbered away, using the nation's armed forces to hound and oppress the then opposition. The country making it though that period gives one the impetus to imagine there isn't any man made situation out there the country couldn't survive.

4. Refineries.

The Op stated that "Buhari was lucky to inherit refineries undergoing infrastructural reform" and in my head I was like wtf!!! How does "inheriting an item undergoing repairs" make one a "lucky man"??

Jonathan was the president for six effing years, a period under which Nigeria earned record forex due to record prices of crude oil and the best he could do was hand over old refineries under repairs!!! Worst still, someone has to nerve to paint this as a legacy passed on to a successor! This to me is mediocrity taken to cosmic proportions.

Jonathan promised to build new refineries in the country when he campaigned in 2011, are there any such facilities to his credit in the country today?? The blunt answer is NO!! I'm not even sure if any groundbreaking was done to build any.

5. Ethnic Clashes.

Another bold-face lie the Op said was that "Jonathan handed over to Buhari a Nigeria devoid of ethnic clashes" indirectly making reference to the Agatu incident and other related herdsmen incidents. What a pity.

First, the random clashes between the Fulani nomads and some communities predate Jonathan's regime, lasted through it and continues to this day. The worst such incident we witnessed happened under Jonathan's era where villagers were displaced from their settlements in the Naka, Gwer West, Guma along with other communities in Benue that share boundaries with Taraba.

The displaced persons flooded Makurdi in their thousands and were camped in places like Tiley Gyado Second. Sch. and St. Mary's Primary School, Padopas Sec. Sch, Govt Model Second Sch, etc.

The stench of the decomposing carcass of dead cattle that filled their air as you drive along the Makurdi Aliade road, just after Igbor, is still fresh on my mind. A truckload of cattle was hijacked from some transporters, driven off the road into the bush nearby and set on fire burning the cattle alive!!! As they decomposed, the stench was simply unbearable- it felt like death was literally hovering in the air as you drove by! The incident was never reported but any Benue/Makurdi resident would confirm this (cc. Kyase).

This problem appears to be an intractable one as it has defied a lot of attempts to fix it, but I believe with the commitment of the present government to address all the security challenges it inherited, before long, we'd see very positive outcomes as regards this particular problem, just as we have Boko Haram.

6. Economy.

It is difficult to discuss this issue exhaustively here but that Op was being clever by half when he just stated in passing that the economy was ding fabulously well since it was the "number one business destination in Africa". As a matter of fact, the first item captured on this list puts a spear right through the heart of this "awesome" lie. It gets even worse when one views this on the backdrop of per capita indices.

7. Upsetting Religious Order.

There can be nothing farther from the truth than that poster's allusion to the President tampering with the religious order of the country simply because he joined a coalition led by an Islamic country to fight terrorism.

This particular position is in keeping faith with PDP's sordid propaganda tactics of forcing the "Buhari-is-a-religious-fundamentalist-and-wants-to-islamise-Nigeria" garbage down our throats no matter what it takes.

These people are quick to forget the immediate past admin's romance with the Islamic Development Bank. It is on record (and I stand to be corrected) that Jonathan is the only Nigerian president to have attended their meeting in person and the president who's secured the most financial instruments from them- pray tell, why didn't anyone scream "Jonathan wants to Islamise Nigeria" then??

The Nigeria has signed pacts and entered into agreements with Christian dominated bodies more times than we could remember- no one raised a finger in objection to our leaders trying to "Christianise" the country- but once an Arab/Muslim country is involved in any bilateral agreement with us under the current admin, the PDP propaganda machinery goes into overdrive as they regurgitate their overused, boring, and superanuated lies which are mostly counterproductive.

These people promoting these volatile prejudices would flush their Nigerian passports down their toilets should an opportunity to live and work in one of these "Islamic countries" present itself. Even pastors "sponsored by their church members" leave the shores of the country to go to an ISLAMIC country to celebrate their birthdays!! How much more hypocritical can we be??

8. Double Standard on Secession.

In this instance, the Op sited Buhari's total support for Palestinian statehood and his "intolerance for Biafra agitation" as double standard. Forgive me reader, but only a very ignorant man would draw any form of similarities between the Israeli/Palestinian palaver and Nigeria/Biafra.

What is happening between Israel and Palestine is more or less a protracted war between two countries, whereas what happened in Nigeria was a civil war in a country. What is happening in Palestine is an occupation by a disproportionately powerful and belligerent neighbour- there isn't any occupation in Nigeria.

Both countries have their governments but since UN has yet to recognise Palestinian Statehood (any such move would surely be vetoed by the United States), they refer to their government as the Palestinian Authority. as it stands, over 100 countries around the world recognise Palestinian Statehood with the staunchest opposition to this coming from US and her closest allies. I'm sure they themselves see the propriety in recognising Palestine as a state but for the benefits they enjoy from their friendship with the US, they'd rather stick to their guns.

Now, tell me, where the hell is "Biafra"?? Do they have an "authority", let alone a "government"?? Hell, where does the "Biafran territory" begin and where does it ends?? Which country in the world recognises them?? What level of legitimacy does "Biafra" has?

It is just appalling anyone would think the previous admin didn't hand over any problems to Buhari- that is simply an unacceptable exaggeration.

We understand the need for an opposition as it strengthens democracy and encourages good governance, but the manner in which the current opposition is playing their role leaves a mighty world to be desired.

Lastly, mull over this:

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him.

This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions. --THOMAS JEFFERSON.



Thanks.

Nice write up.....but they will not read any of this trust me.

They enjoy stewing in their ignorance and spewing hate and bigotry online.

Rather than read and put up a sound or superior argument to debunk your claims, they will seek to attack you personally.

Some people take themselves too seriously...

Nairaland.com the land of amusement....

oatzeal:
Fayose's Aide, Lere Olayinka Getting Prepared For Arrest & Detention By Buhari's DSS
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Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose's media aide, Olalere Olayinka Shared these photos of him this afternoon

captioned :
Getting prepared for possible arrest and detention by Pa Buhari's DSS..

Detention Bag now ready with toiletries and medications.
Henceforth, wherever I go, I go with this bag.
We won't stop talking because it is our democratic rights to talk.
Arrest ooo, detention ooo, court trial ooo, we no dey fear.
‪#‎Dazzol‬.

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https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10205847842580163&id=1380833650

Errrr...how does he hope to fit all those things into that flat file folder?

pawesome:
I am from kaduna.my family house is in d gabgyi villa.does dt clear ur dumb ass doubt?.if only u knw d pain f buildin n usin ur last savings fr dt den sumone comes to destroy it,den u wil knw wt i mean...i lack wt to tell u self
I hv much on ma head so carry ur ideologies n wteva to wia it is needed



N we tank God fr d wisdom dt he hs granted u

Why do you feel you need to insult me to make your point.

I feel your pain and I know it is hard to stay rational in a situation where your property is affected by a redevelopment plan. But it is just that...a redevelopment plan.

If you get your head out of your anus long enough, you will realize that situations like this will always occur now and then in a growing metropolis.

All this nonsense talk about how he is demolishing "Christian" homes and churches and sparing Muslims and mosques is false. If nothing at all, I was in Abuja during the El-Rufai years and I know that no structure built illegally was spared. Churches, mosques, private homes of the high and mighty; they were all brought down.

If your "family house" was erected in an area that you are positive is not public or government land, approach the courts and seek relief. Threatening fire and brimstone on Nairaland will not make you feel better about "all you have on your head." If you cause trouble, the law will catch up with you.

pawesome:
Gbagyi villa is his last stop.boys are already waitin fr d bulldozer.if he touches ani house,it leads to religious crisis.n dis tym,its gonna last..short fool

I can bet that even if you are from Kaduna State, neither you nor your family resides in Kaduna State.

Continue to stoke the embers of crises...just don't come online haranguing us with your sob stories when soldiers begin to use your people for target practice in a bid to put out the fire that you are so shamelessly stoking now.

May God grant you wisdom.

Sadly, half of the people that are insulting Governor El-Rufai on social media have never been to Kaduna. Most of them do not know the history of the state especially as it has to do with religious upheavals.

These are the same people that will abuse the governor and call him incompetent if there is another break down of law and order as happened recently with the unfortunate incident with the Shiites.

Nigeria has not been blessed with too many good leaders. The few ones we have had are the ones that had the guts to take hard decisions and the resilience and courage to stand in the face of the barrage of insults from a people who are often only able to see life through a religious and/or ethnic lenses.

Thank God for the likes of Governor El-Rufai and Ex-Governor Fashola who have walked and still courageously continue to walk down the dark and lonely road to ensure a turnaround for their people.

History shall remember them and others like them kindly.

Naija media.

Almost 5 days after the unfortunate accident, occupants of the car are still been referred to in news reports as "another female occupant", "James Ocholi's driver", "the police orderly" etc.

Don't those poor souls have names

snailspeed:
I do not know what you have to gain by trying to defend a kidnapper and idiotic pedeophile! Shame on you and your kind! Even after all the evidence that has come out to show that Sanusi is a monster, you chose to still defend him. Big big shame on you

Stop been such a doofus my friend. Grow up and stop all the hate. It is killing you slowly and you do not even know it.

What happened to Ese Oruru is unfortunate. But this harebrained attempt to rope the Emir of Kano into the foolish crime of a young and misguided youth is disengenuous.

I do not know what you folks have to gain by spreading this falsehood all over social media.

It is unfortunate and sad what happened to Mr. Orebiyi...but it is understandable.

We live in a very dangerous world nowadays and sincerely, I would have raised the same alarm if I found myself in that situation.

What is unfortunate is the pilot's refusal to allow Mr. Orebiyi back onboard his original flight even after he was cleared by security.

I was in Abuja earlier in the year for a week and I could barely socialise with my friends and family that live there because of fear of Boko Haram attacks. After concluding my business of the day, I would stay holed up in my hotel room for the rest of the day.

Anytime I am in an airport or a public place home or abroad, I think I am usually more alert than most of the security men around.

I no wan die yet abeg!

That is the sad reality of the world we live in nowadays.

"Touch and follow" hey?

Sounds like a convenient excuse for getting out of her parent's hot water to me.

My conclusion is that this young lady eloped with her lover for reasons yet undisclosed or unknown.

All the same, Yinusa still needs to face the law because he as an older person should have known better than to elope with a minor.

He may claim ignorance of the law in this situation but as held by law, Ignorantia juris non excusat

Enouwem:
So I just stumbled on this and I'm shocked... What's your take on this?

You sure are stumbling a lot today....

You should watch your steps....

HiddenShadow:
Falana voted CHANGE why is he complaining of the CHAIN placed on him

Voting a government does not mean one cannot question their policy, Matter of fact, that is the way it should be.

What exactly is wrong with a northerner heading CAN

coolsix:
Only those of us who deal in dollars will understand.

#DevalueNairaNow

So for the benefit of "those of you that deal in dollars" the rest of the country should go to shit?

Like Fayose rightly pointed out, the parallel market has been devalued. Source for your dollars there.

Rossikk:
...If he did, he was awfully quiet in the face of the monumental corruption taking place in that period.

Anyone know when he set up the Twitter account?

I have asked that same question a number of times.

This is a pointless post.

Pooh pooing someone else's luck or success just to make yourself feel good about your own ill - luck or failure does not add any value to you, just like blowing out someone's candle does not make yours any brighter.

I have my own reservations about the young lady's over exposure in the media but then I guess that is the world we live in. It does not in anyway diminish the fact that she received favor from God in the place where she was struggling for her livelihood.

What is instructive is that she was "discovered" in the line of working and struggling for her and her family's livelihood. That for me should be the key learning point for anyone who wants to use her as a "prayer point".

Leaving her family in Iree to come hustle in Lagos was a sacrifice. God rewards hard work and sacrifice. He is not an unfair God. Don't seat on your bum praying and fasting and expecting a miracle like Olajumoke's.

For all those hating on her, believe it or not, the young lady's life will never remain the same.

Very innovative and beautiful. I particularly like the bright colors used.

Nigeria shall be great again!

Huh!!!

I'm I on Nairaland.com

3 pages of discussions on Nigeria ' s economy and no insults and brickbats?

Impressive....this is how it should be.

lielbree:
The president him self is also to resign. And credit should be given to the NASS cos it was only when the budget got to them that all these defects became open

Yeah...they all suddenly grew another set of eyes after it became clear to them that they would not be getting the usual "Ghana must go" bags of cash to pass the budget this time.