Presidebt of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, has charged the National Institute of Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) to continue with the process that would ensure that the legislature is included in school curricula on Civic Education, Social Studies, Government and other related subjects.
This, he said, would aim at improving their contents to bridge the knowledge gaps in the legislature.
Speaking at the end of the finals of the 2021 quiz competition organised by NILDS for senior secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory, Lawan was delighted that since its inception in 2016, the “competition has become more established involving an increasingly greater number of schools and students.”
Lawan, who was represented by the chairman, Committee on National Identity Management and Population, Senator Seidu Alkali, said the competition has become an important instrument means for legislative education among schoolchildren in the FCT and charged the institute to make it more entrenched and expanded to cover the six geo-political zones of the country.
Lawan added that the competition was part of the Institute’s wider mandate to develop a training curricula for schools and tertiary institutions on democracy, legislative practice and procedure, political culture and development.
In his remarks, the Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, commended NILDS for organising the competition to provide an opportunity for brilliant students from across the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, to engage in an exercise that tests and expands the limits of their knowledge.
