Malam Adamu introduces new curriculum into Nigerian universities

A new curriculum for Nigerian universities has been presented by the minister of education, Malam Adamu Adamu, who claims it will enhance the value of university graduates.

This was said by Adamu on Tuesday in Abuja at the presentation of the Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS) Book 1 series for Nigerian universities as well as a book written in his honor.

According to him, graduates from all universities would be equipped with the necessary knowledge, skills, and expertise to succeed in the twenty-first century.

“We must keep making sure that graduates from Nigerian universities have the necessary skills, knowledge, and expertise to succeed in the twenty-first century.

We must continuously work to align the reality of global best practices with our educational programs and learning. This objective is what the CCMAS book series aims to accomplish, he said.
Adamu demanded that the curriculum be fully implemented and praised the National Universities Commission (NUC) for launching CCMAS in 17 disciplines as one of the most important steps it had taken to ensure that Nigerian universities were meeting modern international standards.

“The implementation of CCMAS requires dedication, hard work, and the willingness to accept change by everyone, so it is important that we embrace training and providing our academics with the skills and knowledge needed to implement CMAS,” he said.

The minister added that residents of the region were to blame for the current educational backwardness seen in the country’s north.

Adamu praised the NUC for its efforts to encourage the emergence of more private universities and claimed that the commission’s efforts were bearing fruit because more of these institutions have recently been established in Northern Nigeria.

Because Islam is the greatest promoter of knowledge and is a subject of interest in the North, the region has a self-imposed educational backwardness. The first university in the world was founded in 859 AD by a Muslim woman named Fatima Al-Fihri. At the time, Italian, Oxford, and Cambridge universities had not yet begun operations. The original university is still operational today and is now located in Morocco.

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The second university in the world before the universities of Europe was founded in Cairo about 100 years after the first, and like the first, Fatimatu Zahara, a Muslim woman, was responsible for its founding.

“So, Muslim women founded the first two universities in the world, and here people are using Islam to keep women at home. It doesn’t seem logical to me, the minister said.

Adamu, however, expressed happiness that a significant portion of the 37 new private universities that the Federal Executive Council approved on Monday are located in the north.
In order to ensure that the changes made to the teaching profession produce the desired results, he called for the creation of the Federal Teachers Service Commission.

“I want to leave one legacy in your hands (heads of education agencies and others),” I wrote in a letter, “there is one yet to come to fruition, that will completely change education.
“I recently realized that we need a Federal Teachers Service Commission, so I want to leave this in your hands so that the teachers will be able to get all of those things approved by Mr. President, and education will start to draw in the best brains,” Adamu said.

Speaking in his own behalf, Prof. Rasheed Abubakar, Executive Secretary of NUC, praised the minister for the numerous accomplishments made under his leadership, particularly in the area of university development.

In the country, there were 111 private universities as of yesterday morning; by yesterday evening, there were 148 private universities.

The NUC president stated, “That is, of the 148 private universities in Nigeria, 87 or 60% were established while Adamu Adamu was Minister of Education.

Rasheed, who also called CCMAS a game-changer in Nigerian universities, praised Prof. Peter Okebukola, a former executive secretary of the NUC, for his contribution to its creation and referred to him as the curriculum’s chief architect.
Prof. Attahiru Jega, a former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), also spoke and praised the CCMAS as a positive step.

This makes a crucial contribution to the restructuring of the educational system in Nigeria. It is wonderful that this has happened under the current minister of education, Adamu Adamu, and the new curriculum is without a doubt a significant value addition to repositioning our educational system,” he said.

Additionally, Prof. Ruqqayattu Rufa’i, a former minister of education, urged the new curriculum’s trainees to move swiftly to bring the training to various universities.

The unveiling of a book titled “Repositioning Nigerian Educational System; the Ministerial Footprints of Adamu Adamu” and tributes to the late Prof. Idris Abdulkadir and Prof. Nimi Briggs were also part of the event, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). (NAN)