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Four months after the Copyright Act Repeal and Re-enactment Bill was passed by the National Assembly to provide for the effective regulation, protection

Stakeholders have intensified calls for the government to re-introduce the subject into the nation’s education curriculum since its...

Stakeholders have intensified calls for the government to re-introduce the subject into the nation’s education curriculum since its...

THE Federal Government on Thursday formally announced the reintroduction of History as a stand alone subject in basic education curriculum in Nigeria, thirteen years after its abolition. 

The federal government has launched the first phase of a teacher training programme to reintroduce history in the basic education curriculum.

The Nigerian government on Thursday announced the formal reintroduction of history as a subject in the country’s basic education curriculum after it was abolished 13 years ago. Former President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua-led government in 2009 removed history from Nigeria's basic education curriculum supposedly because students were avoiding it with the claim that there were few jobs for history graduates, and that there was dearth of history teachers.

Recent research across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria reveals that there is a 92 percent learning deprivation among children in the country.

The Federal Ministry of Education has organised a review meeting on the harmonisation of Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) to eliminate disparity in its quality and standard nationwide.

Until the latest proposal, the highest allocation to education in percentage under the administration of Mr Buhari was the 7.9 per...

It was gathered, yesterday, that Nigeria loses N1 trillion revenue yearly to patronage of foreign printing firm by government and government agencies.