Tunji Alausa, the minister of education, says President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed that history should and will be reintroduced as a subject in Nigeria’s basic schools.
History, reports indicate, was removed from Nigeria’s basic
school curriculum in 2007, eliciting sharp criticism that spanned years.
In many cases from then on, historical topics were taught
with little depth as part of “social studies”.
In 2018, the federal government ordered the nationwide
re-introduction of history as an independent subject in the curriculum of
primary and junior secondary schools in the country.
Adamu Adamu, the then minister of education, had stated that
the Nigerian Education Research and Development Council (NERDC) would need to
first carry out a disarticulation of history from the social studies
curriculum.
He said a curriculum would be designed with topics to help
students appreciate history as a national integration and nation-building tool.
The ex-minister said a total of 3,700 history teachers were
shortlisted for the first round of training to enhance the teaching of history.
Education ministries at the state level, including those of
Lagos and Taraba, have since been moving to implement the federal policy.
Tunji Alausa spoke on a Tuesday Channels TV show where he
expressed concern that Nigeria’s youth are disconnected from its history.
“Let me go to basic education, the curriculum is good. What
has been missing in the past is Nigerian history. We now have people of 30
years disconnected from our history. It doesn’t happen in any part of the
world,” the minister said.
“President Bola Tinubu has mandated that we put that back in
our curriculum and that is back. From 2025 our students in primary and
secondary schools will have that as part of their studies.”
While validating the federal policy of re-introducing
history as a basic school subject, the former minister Adamu Adamu argued that
its absence had led to declining morals, erosion of civic values, and a
disconnection of the citizenry from the country’s past.
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