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CAN Says Crk Shouldn't Be Merged With IRK. .....what Do U Think by tinuolaishola: 11:20am On Jun 23, 2017
The Christian Association Nigeria (CAN) has called on the Federal Ministry of Education and the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) to publish the full details of the controversial new Curriculum of Education if they have no hidden agenda.

In a statement yesterday in Abuja, CAN President, Rev. (Dr.) Samson Olasupo A. Ayokunle, said the association foresaw the danger ahead if the curriculum that merged Christian Religious Knowledge and Islamic Religious Knowledge with the Civic Education is made to stay.

Ayokunle said: “In this curriculum, Islamic and Christian Religious Studies will no longer be studied in schools as subjects on their own but as themes in a civic education. This undermines the sound moral values that these two subjects had imparted in the past to our children, which had made us to religiously and ethnically co-exist without any tension.



“Is this not a divisive curriculum that can set the nation on fire? Is this fair to millions of Christians in this nation?”The Federal Ministry of Education had debunked the claims that Christian Religious Knowledge (CRK) had been removed as a subject of study from the secondary school curriculum and Islamic Religious Studies reintroduced.

Director of Press, Federal Ministry of Education, Mrs. Chinenye Ihuoma, said the ministry had only designed a new subject, which merged Civic Education, IRK, CRK and Social Studies into “Religion and National Values.

She said: “The alternation is not from the minister, this is purely from the National Council on Education. 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.“Arabic and Islamic Studies are not standing alone. Islamic Religious read more on http://tinique.com/can-restates-stand-against-merging-of-crk-and-irk/
Re: CAN Says Crk Shouldn't Be Merged With IRK. .....what Do U Think by tdbankplc: 11:29am On Jun 23, 2017
Aunt Chinenye isi gbarie gi. U no well. What kinda merging be that? Abolish them or separate them.

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