The federal government has confirmed the return of History as a core subject in the school curriculum.
The minister of education, Tunji Alausa, stated this while speaking on Tuesday during Channels Television’s End-of-Year Special Review Show.
He said President Bola Tinubu had ordered the reintroduction of Nigerian History as a subject in basic education,
Alausa stated, “President Tinubu has mandated the return of Nigerian History as a subject in basic education.”
It would be recalled that the Nigerian government announced the formal reintroduction of history as a subject in the country’s basic education curriculum after it was abolished 13 years ago.
Former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua-led government in 2009 removed history from Nigeria’s basic education curriculum supposedly because students were avoiding it with the claim that there were few jobs for history graduates and that there was a dearth of history teachers.
However, before his exit, the then minister of education, Adamu Adamu, performed the inauguration ceremony to reintroduce history teaching and train history teachers at the basic education level in Abuja.
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