NATIONAL UNITY: No more CRS or IRS but now RNV
Christianity and Islam which has been the main reason for Religious conflicts in Nigeria is about to experience peace.
In what many considers as impossible, harmonising Christianity and Islam, which they say is as impossible as mixing water with oil.
President Buhari has once again proved, Nigerians are one and cannot be disintegrated because of different religious beliefs.
In this vain, the Federal Ministry of Education’s moved to reduce the workload of primary and junior secondary pupils from 20 to a maximum of ten subjects under the nine-year basic educational curriculum. The idea was welcomed in most quarters as it would align our system with international paradigms.
However, under this scheme which was developed by the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), Christian and Islamic Religious Studies, which are separately taught, will now be merged under a compulsory subject known as Religion and National Values (RNV). Other subjects brought under the RNV include Civic Education, Social Studies, and Security Education.
This is aimed in putting an end to religious violence, the implication of this, is that the RNV forces Christian children to memorise and recite the Qur’an while Muslim children are made to study Biblical texts even in predominantly Muslim areas where exposure to Christianity is strictly forbidden in Nigeria.
In what many considers as impossible, harmonising Christianity and Islam, which they say is as impossible as mixing water with oil.
President Buhari has once again proved, Nigerians are one and cannot be disintegrated because of different religious beliefs.
In this vain, the Federal Ministry of Education’s moved to reduce the workload of primary and junior secondary pupils from 20 to a maximum of ten subjects under the nine-year basic educational curriculum. The idea was welcomed in most quarters as it would align our system with international paradigms.
However, under this scheme which was developed by the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), Christian and Islamic Religious Studies, which are separately taught, will now be merged under a compulsory subject known as Religion and National Values (RNV). Other subjects brought under the RNV include Civic Education, Social Studies, and Security Education.
This is aimed in putting an end to religious violence, the implication of this, is that the RNV forces Christian children to memorise and recite the Qur’an while Muslim children are made to study Biblical texts even in predominantly Muslim areas where exposure to Christianity is strictly forbidden in Nigeria.
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