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Ministers Lament Falling Education standard, Go On Retreat Next Month To Tackle It

Adamu Adamu education

All the ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have expressed discomfort with the falling standard of education and resolved to embark on a retreat to find proper solution.

Rising from the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, Wednesday, presided over by acting President Yemi Osinbajo, the ministers fixed early July for the retreat but the venue is yet to be disclosed.

Briefing news men shortly after the weekly meeting, the education minister, Malam Adamu Adamu said that FEC discussed single very important issue on the road map of education sector and developments.

“Today, at council we discussed many issues but the most important was education. “Members agree that the fallen standard in education is so serious that we will need a ministerial retreat to look at all the issues. There are a lot of issues in solution and all of them are crying for attention. So there will be a ministerial retreat in the next two weeks to look at the issues and from there we will take off in what we are doing.

“Initially we had prepared s blueprint but FEC felt the issues is beyond that because there are crisis in all the areas of education, in out of school children, in technical education and training, in ICT, in all the areas you can think of.

“So ministers are going to start talking to themselves and come out with solutions.”

Adamu Adamu also used the opportunity to deny the media reports that Christian Religious Knowledge has been removed from the school curriculum across the country.

“You journalists especially those of you on social media are not helping this nation by banding things that are absolutely false.

“The issue of Christain religious knowledge that all the national media, social media took up with up and  deceived  even the leadership of the Christian association of Nigeria because they believed it. I read in the papers that they asked the acting president to confirm, there is no truth in it at all.

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“It was just somebody’s imagination probably somebody who wishes to raise tension in the country after the Biafra issue and then the quit order given to some young people in the north so the person just followed suit trying to stoic the embers of religion. There is no truth whatsoever I repeat.

“Certainly there was a policy in 2012 which was given effect in 2014 that is even before this government came in. One of the things I did as minister was to speak to the national council on education to disarticulate history from the social studies curricula be caused we believe we want our young people to know our history. You cannot know who you are without knowing who your ancestors were in the past.

“And the national council of education did accept and agree that the teaching and learning of CRK has been made compulsory for all christians students and teaching and learning of Islamic studies is compulsory for all Muslim students.

“So you are actually accusing the ministry of the opposite of what it has done. I think I just need to tell you even if you are not the ones in the social media, they must be your compatriots, please tell them to be more responsible in handling the issues especially at this time in history.” [myad]