NGO Calls For Total Removal Of Sexuality Education In School Curriculum

Anongovernmental organiza on, Pen Publishers, has called on government at all levels and Ministry of Educa on to see to the total removal of sexuality educa on in school curriculum across the country.

The call is coming months a er the Nigeria Minister of Educa on, Mallam Adamu Adamu ordered that the sexuality educa on be expunged from basic educa on curriculum across Nigeria.

Chief Execu ve Officer of Pen Publishers, Mrs. Haleemat Alli-Bankole state that Comprehensive Sexuality Educa on is a Sexuality Educa on curriculum developed by UNESCO and partners for Worldwide use which content and delivery endangers children.

Alli-Bankole spoke during a sensi sa on programme on sex educa on for students across the

State of Osun in Osogbo yesterday.

She explained that the event was targeted at increasing the awareness about the harms of the comprehensive sexuality educa on in the school curriculum.

Mrs. Alli-Bankole said: “This awareness programme is targeted at increasing the awareness about the harms of the comprehensive sexuality educa on in our school curriculum.

“The Pen Publishers’ wishes to create awareness on its dangers in order to protect our vulnerable children from con nued exposure to it by removing it from the school curriculum as directed recently by the Minister of Educa on”.

In her remarks, the Legal Consultant to the Founda on Africa Cultural Heritage, Mrs. Mary Ekemeize, stated that sexual educa on shouldn’t be part of curriculum for pupils in basic classes, no ng that it expose them to immoral sex at tender age.

Ekemeize added that many textbooks teach the students on how to have sex which they are not ready for.

She said: “Many textbooks and subjects in our schools today now teach students on how to have sex, something they are not to be exposed to at that age. Sex educa on should be a secondary school class subject.

“When you look at textbooks in junior secondary schools today, they are talking about abor on which is illegal in Nigeria. They are not presen ng the danger part to the children, they are rather seeing it as something normal.

“The government should replace sex educa on with some other subjects that will be of good to students. They can teach them on how to regulate emo ons when they are angry. The government should see to the total removal of the subject from our curriculum “.