The Taraba State Authorities has introduced plans to reintroduce historical past as a topic within the fundamental schooling curriculum in faculties within the state.
The state governor, Agbu Kefas, made this identified when he hosted journalists to a dinner in Jalingo on Sunday.
The Information Company of Nigeria experiences that historical past was faraway from major and secondary schooling curriculum within the 2009/2010 educational session.
NAN experiences that in November 2022, the Federal Authorities reintroduced historical past as a stand-alone topic within the fundamental schooling curriculum in Nigeria 13 years after its abolition.
Historical past, he mentioned, has a reference to the event of any society.
“No society will really develop with out its inhabitants having data of their historical past.
“That’s the reason we are going to introduce historical past research in our major and secondary faculties within the state to put a stable basis for accelerated improvement,” he mentioned.
The governor additionally mentioned in no distance time, major faculty academics within the state have to be first-degree holders whereas secondary faculty academics will need to have a minimal of Masters diploma to reinforce the standard of schooling within the state.
He urged journalists to watch the implementation of the state authorities’s free schooling coverage in major and secondary faculties to make sure that all the college directors had been doing the proper factor.
Whereas commending journalists for his or her goal reportage thus far, Kefas pledged to renovate the Press Centre in Jalingo and supply operational automobiles to the assorted teams beneath the Nigeria Union of Journalists.
Talking, Mr Danjuma Adamu, the instant previous Taraba Commissioner for Data urged the state authorities to journalists as companions in progress.
Additionally talking Hajiya Zainab Jalingo, the state Commissioner for Data known as for continued partnership with journalists to serve the folks of the state higher.
Earlier, the Taraba NUJ Chairman, Matthew Jen, and the state NUJ Correspondents’ Chapel Chairman, Gabriel Yough, assured the governor of continued goal reportage for the profit of all.
NAN