{"id":58819,"date":"2025-01-02T09:44:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T09:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58819"},"modified":"2025-01-02T09:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T09:44:32","slug":"tinubu-approves-reintroduction-of-history-in-schools-by-2025-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/02\/tinubu-approves-reintroduction-of-history-in-schools-by-2025-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Approves Reintroduction of History in Schools by 2025 \u2014Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has approved the reintroduction of History as a compulsory subject in primary and secondary schools, effective 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, announced this during a year-end interview, highlighting the importance of reconnecting students with Nigeria\u2019s heritage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have people who are 30 years old disconnected from our history; it doesn\u2019t happen in any part of the world,\u201d Alausa said, stressing the subject&#8217;s role in fostering national identity.<\/p>\n<p>History was removed from Nigeria\u2019s basic education curriculum in 2007, a move that has faced widespread criticism.<\/p>\n<p>With President Tinubu\u2019s directive, History will be reinstated across primary schools, Junior Secondary Schools (JSS), and secondary schools to strengthen the educational framework and promote a deeper understanding of Nigeria&#8217;s past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal President Bola Tinubu has approved the reintroduction of History as a compulsory subject in primary and secondary schools, effective 2025. The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, announced this during a year-end interview, highlighting the importance of reconnecting students with Nigeria\u2019s heritage. \u201cWe now have people who are 30 years old disconnected from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58821,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58819\/revisions\/58821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}