Association of Nigeria (CAN) in a meeting with Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to protest the inclusion of Islamic Arabic Studies into the secondary school curriculum without providing for Christian Religious Knowledge as a step towards an islamisation agenda.
CAN, led by its President, Rev Dr Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, opined that the action could be likened to a time bomb which must be diffused before it explodes.
“We are here to point your attention to a time-bomb, obnoxious, divisive and ungodly secondary school curriculum that the Federal Ministry of Education is introducing into our schools and of which we had earlier complained to the Presidency.”
He said the first attempt to introduce it had been suspended following CAN’s protest but had now been brought back.
While noting that a state had already started its implementation, the CAN president said it was “an ill-wind that blows nobody any good for so many reasons.”
He added that in this curriculum, Islamic and Christian Religious Studies will no longer be studied in schools as subjects on their own but as themes in a civic education, adding that Islamic studies had however been made a compulsory alternative subject to French for students in sections of the curriculum. Read more
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