New curriculum coming September for Nigeria’s secondary school, says Education Minister

The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, said on Thursday that a new curriculum would be introduced for secondary schools nationwide by September 2024.

Tahir spoke at the 2024 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board policy meeting in Abuja.

“We are working hard to ensure that a new curriculum is introduced for secondary schools by September,” Mamman said.

Mamman noted that the exercise had been on for the past year and a stakeholders meeting will be held on August 6, 2024.

 “It is our plan that by September, this programme will be implemented in all schools, public and private,” the minister said.

Recently, the National Senior Secondary School Education Commission decried the deplorable state of senior secondary schools in the country and called for collaboration to overcome some of the challenges bedevilling the secondary level of education in the country.

The commission listed some of the challenges confronting the sector, including infrastructural deficit, unqualified teachers, obsolete curriculum, and deplorable libraries and laboratories.

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