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The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has counseled the Kano State Government for prohibiting some textbooks in nursery, major and secondary colleges as a consequence of dangerous and sexually specific content material.

MURIC Chairman in Kano, Mr Hassan Indabawa, in a press release, mentioned the transfer by the federal government to take away some lewd and pernicious educating supplies from the curriculum of fundamental colleges was commendable.

He mentioned the choice of the Kano authorities, underneath the management of Governor Abba Yusuf, got here on the proper time.

“Therefore, all parents, educationists, learners and advocates must embrace and support the initiative so as to tame the alarming rise of immorality amongst the youths in the state,” he mentioned.

Indabawa additional mentioned the group was one of many front-line advocates for eradicating all obscene educating aids from the nation’s instructional system.

“MURIC rejoice and commends the government of Kano for doing the needful by prohibiting the use of some selected teaching materials found to contain sexually explicit contents.

“Nigerians are aware that in the last twenty years, classical English literature books and novels such as Macbeth, Merchant of Venice, and Things Fall Apart, among others, have been removed from our school curricula.

“They have been replaced with sex-related local English literature and other science books containing lewd and pernicious matters to give the unsuspecting young school pupils the wrong impression that self-control is unnecessary.

“As we may equally be aware, one of the negative consequences of this is the sexualisation of primary and secondary school pupils,” he mentioned.

NAN reviews that the Kano authorities, on Thursday, mentioned it had banned using some textbooks throughout nursery, major and secondary colleges within the state as a consequence of dangerous and sexually specific contents