Anyone familiar with the Nigeria sphere will agree that when it comes to policies, the issue is hardly ever with the policies themselves, but in the implementation. This is especially true of the education sector, which over the past few years has seen a myriad of positive changes on paper, but an even greater avalanche of negative features in practice.
The Basic Education Curriculum, which focuses on the first nine years of education in the 9-3-4 system, has been posited by the National Education Research and Development Council, NERDC since 2005. The NERDC's Chief Executive Officer, Prof. Godswill Obioma, had then laid out an action plan for the implementation of the new curriculum such that by end of school year 2015 the entire curriculum would have been implemented for all pupils and classes.
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