And as would be expected, the effect of its removal as a core subject cascaded down to the universities where, currently, only a few have full-fledged history departments. But pray, who even stopped the study of history as a stand-alone subject in the first place? If not for any other thing, how do you foster patriotism without national history? The probing questions on the ill-thought-out policy that removed the study of history as a core subject are literally endless. Did they consider the patriotic zeal that lessons derived from such heroes could have inspired in young Nigerians?

Source: Nigerian Tribune July 01, 2019 02:26 UTC