(Reuben Abati)-- …I have had similar encounters in more
recent times: young Nigerians who do not know the author of Things Fall
Apart, and who have never heard of Lord Lugard, Ahmadu Bello, Bola Ige or
Kaduna Nzeogwu….
This is one of those self-inflicted omissions in our
development process. Close to two decades ago, history was removed from the
primary and secondary school curricula as a core subject.The teaching of history also became threatened at the
tertiary level, as it got labeled as one of those disciplines that cannot get
anyone a job in the oil and gas sector or the banks.
