New Curriculum for Schools to take effect in October – Minister

Temitope Mustapha, Abuja

Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Professor  Mamman Tahir, has announced that the new curriculum for schools will take effect in October 2024.

He made this known on Monday while briefing State House Correspondents after the Executive Council meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu.

According to Prof Tahir, the new curriculum will incorporate knowledge, skills and values, with a special focus on skills, to enable the students to graduate with skills that can properly integrate them with the demands of the economy.

“There is a general concern about the behaviour and conduct of our young ones in the country and our social values, and civic education is a compulsory subject in secondary schools. But with all that, we are still having some deterioration and serious concern about our national values.

“So we are rolling out a new curriculum for primary schools and secondary schools in Nigeria from this October, which is supposed to incorporate knowledge, skills and values, especially with a special focus on skills, so that our students, when they graduate, they will have skills that they can connect with the economy.”  

New Senate Building

He also announced that the council approved a contract for the construction of a new senate building for the University of Ibadan and the cost associated with conducting examinations by the National Examinations Council.

 “The University Ibadan, which was established in 1948, is having its first Senate building, which is meant to accommodate tens of offices and principal management of the university.

 “You may recall, recently that NECO released the results of the examination it ran for millions of Nigerians. So, the Council today approved the process and the cost associated with that,” the Minister explained.