The Federal Government
of Nigerian has directed the ministry of education to restore both the
Christian Religious Knowledge and the Islamic Religious Knowledge as
independent subjects.
The
government asked the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council,
NERDC, the country’s education body to immediately reinstall the two subjects
where they were before their removal.
Minister of Education,
Adamu Adamu, gave the directive at a meeting with State commissioners of
education and stakeholders in the education sector, in Abuja.
The
minister, represented by the Minister of State for Education, Anthony Anwukah,
noted that the meeting was aimed at strengthening the partnership within the
three tiers of government in the implementation of the Sustainable Development
Goals 4, SDG4.
The minister said:
“There is this controversy over the merger of CRK and IRK in the school
curriculum. There were complaints by parents that children were overloaded with
so many subjects and the recommendation then was to merge one or two subjects.
“Unfortunately,
water and oil were merged together and it is not working. So, to save ourselves
the agony, the two subjects should be separated.”
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