Na Wa Oh! National Assembly Rejects Bill To Make History Compulsory In Schools (See Details)

The National Assembly has thrown out a bill wishing to make history a compulsory subject in primary and secondary schools across the nation.

Premium Times reports that the House of Representatives said that there was no need for a legislation to make history a compulsory subject and the proposal was not properly worded and therefore stood down the bill.

The bill, titled “A Bill for an Act to Make History a Core School Subject in Nigeria’s Primary and Secondary Schools and for other Related Matters,” was proposed by Ayodeji Oladimeji, an APC member from Oyo State.

Oladimeji argued that the bill became necessary because of widespread ignorance of Nigerian history and other historical events among young Nigerians. Oladimeji said enacting the adoption of history into law should make it stringent for education administrators to expunge from the curriculum.

“I have a secretary who did not even know anything about former Head of State, Murtala Muhammed. Colleagues, we need to do something about this situation because history is highly essential for nation building,” Oladimeji said.

Other Reps members accepted the importance of Oladimeji’s argument and the bill but turned it down on the grounds that it contained a word ‘core’ which was ‘somehow’.

“I know it’s important for a people to know their history, but the word ‘core’ in the title of the bill is somehow,” Zakari Mohammed said and was backed by other lawmakers.

Speaker Yakubu Dogara overruled Oladimeji’s prayers and urged him to go and rework the bill.

Meanwhile, Abdulmumin Jibrin, the suspended member of the House of Representatives, has gone on exile.

The lawmaker has fled to London last week to receive an award and take his anti-graft campaign to the global community.