Ministry of Education to merge Christian and Islamic studies in schools

Federal Ministry of Education in conjunction
with the Nigerian Educational Research and
Development Council (NERDC), is working on
reducing the workload of primary and junior
secondary pupils from 20 to a maximum of ten
subjects under the nine-year basic educational
curriculum in order to align with International
standards.
However, under this scheme Christian and Islamic
Religious Studies, which are separately taught, will
now be merged under a compulsory subject known
as Religion and National Values (RNV).
Other subjects brought under the RNV include
Civic Education, Social Studies, and Security
Education.
Source:Vanguard