Govt urged to support Arabic, Islamic studies

The National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS) has asked that government support the teaching of Arabic and Islamic studies in Nigerian schools. 

In a communiqué issued after a two-day stakeholders meeting in Kaduna yesterday and signed by the chairman, Conference Communiqué Committee, Professor Muhammad Awwal Umar, the board said Arabic and Islamic education had contributed to the development of Nigeria.  

While expressing appreciation of the approval granted by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) for NBAIS to become a parastatal of the Federal Ministry of Education, he urged government to continue to support the learning and teaching of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Nigerian schools.