₦airaland Forum

zero8zero:
History In Schools are skeletal, it is more of foreign history and little national history. Deliberately leaving out crucial historical events out of the curriculum because of primordial sentiments is not good for the cohesion of the country.

You are wrong in this assertion. All the topics in the curriculum are on Nigerian history, culture, important personalities, heads of state,heroes and heroines, important cities and towns, historical sites such as rivers, rocks, palaces, etc.

One of the problems with Nigeria is that policy makers and supervisors most times do not understand what they superintend over. It is most unfortunate that the minister who is supposed to be in a knowledgeable position is also committing the same faux pax as many uninformed Nigerians. For the ministers information, though History was removed from the curriculum of primary schools and junior secondary schools during Ya'Adua's era, it was returned to the curriculum under former president Jonathan. This, I know because I work with the curriculum. The Minister should query his officials who misinformed him. The problem is that most officers in most federal and state ministries of education do not even have copies of the curriculum being operated in the country more or less knowing what is inside.

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This is why serious people are campaigning to bring History back to schools.

Uncle, this alliance that you are begging for, did it not happen in 1960- 1963, please educate us on how it ended and how many lives were lost after. [/quote]I don't know why many Nigerians always say that History is not taught in schools in Nigeria. History has always been a subject in the curriculum of primary schools and junior secondary schools in Nigeria. I know this because I have always worked with the curriculum.

Akeredolu's only good legacy in ONDO State is the formation of Amotekun. Apart from that, he took ONDO State many years backward in other spheres such as education, health, etc, due to his greed and that of his immediate family. The legacy of unpaid workers' salaries is still haunting ONDO State till today. The state owned polytechnic worker are still owed about six months unpaid salaries, doctors are nowhere in the state hospitals as about 150 left the state due to unpaid salaries. Right now doctors in the state owned UNIMED teaching hospital are on strike due to unpaid salaries that accumulated from Aketi's period and also, the state capital became an eyesore under his watch.