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FG Reintroduces History to Basic Curriculum After 13 Years

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Tapre Timine
Published: June 13, 2025
Last updated: June 13, 2025
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The Federal Government has announced the reintroduction of History as a stand-alone subject in the basic education curriculum in Nigeria.

A total of 3,700 History teachers have also been shortlisted for the first round of training for enhanced teaching of the subject thirteen years after its abolition.

On Thursday, Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, spoke at the flag-off ceremony of the reintroduction of the teaching of History and training of History teachers at the basic education level.

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He lamented that the national cohesion was being threatened with the country retreating into primordial sentiments due to lack of knowledge of the evolution of Nigeria following the removal of History from the basic education curriculum.

Adamu was represented by the Minister of State for Education, Rt Hon Goodluck Nanah Opiah. The event was attended by the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, and other key stakeholders in the education sector.

The History subject was removed from primary and secondary education curriculums from the 2009/2010 academic session.

However, general reactions insisted that for a country that was still evolving and grappling with issues of social cohesion, political stability, and economic development, it could not afford to forget its past. The current Minister of Education ordered the reintroduction of the subject in 2019.

Adamu said:

“History used to be one of the foundational subjects taught in our classroom but for some inexplicable reasons, the steam of teaching and leaming was abolished.

“As a result, history was subsequently expunged from the list of subject combinations our students could offer in both external and internal examinations compared to the subjects that were made compulsory at basic and secondary levels in Nigeria.

“This single act no doubt relegated and eroded the knowledge and information that learners could otherwise have been exposed to. It was a monumental mistake and have already started seeing its negative consequences

“The loss created by the absence of this subject has led to a fall in moral values, erosion of cvic values, and disconnect from the past. More worrisome was the neglect of the teaching of this subject at basic and post-basic levels of education which invariably eroded the knowledge of the evolution of Nigeria as a country.

“The immediate implication of this was that we lost ideas even of our recent past, and we scarcely saw ourselves as one nation and gradually began retreated into our primordial sentiments.”

The Minister added that the training and retraining of teachers to enhance their capacity development that would lead to the mastery of the subject would be a focus of this re-introduction.

He said teachers would be provided with the essential skills needed to teach the subject, the technique, methodology which will eventually give the subject a didactic outlook that will arouse the interest of the children to listen with rapt attention and remove the initial barriers that may have inhibited learning.

Meanwhile, on capacity building for teachers, who have been disconnected from History teaching for several years, the Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi, said a total of 3,700 History teachers have been selected from the 36 states of the federation and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for training.

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