FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESPONDS TO C.R.K. SCRAP REPORT

   The Federal Ministry of Education has finally responded to the report making the rounds that, the Christian Religious Knowledge, C.R.K. has been removed from the public secondary schools' curriculum in Nigeria, and replaced and or reintroduced the Islamic Religious Studies IRS.

Refuting the report as a mere hearsay, the Press Chief, Ministry of Education, Chinenye Ihuoma says that, what actually happened was that, the ministry had designed a new subject which merged Civil Education, Islamic Religious Studies, Christian Religious Knowledge and Social Studies into a new subject called, Religion and National Values.

The Press Chief also maintained that, the decision to merge the foregoing subjects did not come from the Minister of Education, rather it was a unanimous decision of the National Council on Education. She said that the Council also agreed to have History as a subject of its own at the basic level.

According to her, the new subject, Religion and National Values, is a cocktail of Religion and Civics. In an event where you have an amalgamation of subjects, in the same period, it will be apposite that everyone attends to the lecture that corresponds with their own religion, she climaxed.