Christian religious pioneers in the country have sentenced the inconspicuous moves to change over Christian secondary school understudies to Muslims by forcing Arabic Studies on them by the Federal Government.
The Christian pioneers who are all individuals from Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) incorporate Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor W.F. Kumuyi of Deeper Life Bible Church, Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church, Bishop Mike Okonkwo of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM) and Reverend Felix Omobude.
The religious pioneers dismiss the burden of Arabic examinations on Christian understudies in Secondary schools in Nigeria and request Christian understudies to blacklist the mandatory Arabic classes.
Vanguard newspaper in a report said the pastors at a meeting called for immediate reversal of the revised Basic Education Curriculum, especially the removal of Christian Religious Studies as part of a subject known as Religion and National Values, and kept up that Christian Religious Studies should remain all alone as a different subject similarly as it has dependably been.
They criticised the move to impose Arabic Studies on every secondary school student in the country, stating that the federal government has no privilege to constrain any Nigerian understudy at any level to contemplate Arabic Studies.
The pioneers encouraged the Christian understudies in Nigeria to "not go to Arabic classes" guaranteeing that the legislature has no authority to compel the children to go to the classes.
Omobude, who is the PFN national president, Oyedepo and Okonkwo all stated: "We know about coordinated plans to inconspicuously utilize this arrangement as a methods for strong religious teaching and we keep up our remain against it."
"Government has no privilege to drive subjects on any Nigerian child neither does it have the authority to drop Christian Religious Studies at the Senior Secondary School level while asking him/her to keep on reading Islamic Studies which he/she can't do at college level," Bishop Oyedepo stated, stressing that by halting Christian Religious Studies, CRS, naturally implied that it would not be grasped at the tertiary institutions.
In the mean time, the Christian Association Nigeria (CAN) has approached the Federal Ministry of Education and the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) to distribute the full subtle elements of the disputable new educational modules of instruction on the off chance that they have no concealed motivation.
Talking through its leader, Dr Samson Ayokunle, CAN affired that there is discrimination against Christian students in the curriculum.
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