President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has mandated that History should be reintroduced as a subject in Nigeria’s basic schools.
Gatekeepers News reports that Tunji Alausa, minister of education disclosed this on a Tuesday Channels TV show, lamenting that Nigeria’s youth are disconnected from its history.
He said, “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.”
“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.”
Validating the federal policy of re-introducing history as a basic school subject, the former minister, Adamu Adamu stressed that its absence had led to declining morals, erosion of civic values, and a disconnection of the citizenry from the country’s past.
History was removed from Nigeria’s basic school curriculum in 2007 and only a small percentage of historical topics were since then taught under Social Studies.
The federal government in 2018, ordered nationwide re-introduction of History as an independent subject in the curriculum of primary and junior secondary schools in the country.
Adamu Adamu, former minister of education had said that 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 learn the subject as a national integration and nation-building tool, adding that a total of 3,700 history teachers were shortlisted for the first round of training to enhance the teaching of History.
