CRK To Be Taught Under New Subject – Education Minister

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has denied reports his ministry removed Christian Religious Knowledge, CRK, from the curriculum of public secondary schools in Nigeria.

Recall that the social media has been agog with news that the CRK has been expunged from the curriculum, adding that it was a plan by the education minister, Adam Adamu to foist the study of Islamic religious study as compulsory subject in public secondary schools.

However, Adamu in a statement by the Director of Press, Federal Ministry of Education, Mrs. Chinenye Ihuoma, dismissed the reports, saying the Ministry designed a new subject which merged Civic Education, IRS, CRK and Social Studies into “Religion and National Values.”

“The alternation is not from the minister, this is purely from the National Council on Education,” the statement read.

“It is just as the council has said that History should be a subject of its own at the basic level in the first nine years.

“Now, a new subject has been introduced, called Religion and National Values. It is a fusion of religion and civics. I have not seen the details but in a case where you have subject combinations in the same period

“Everyone will attend lectures that correspond with their own religion. Arabic and Islamic Studies are not standing alone. Islamic Religious Study and Christian Religious Study as well as national values will be taught under a new subject,” he added.