Agency Report

By Sani Idris

An NGO, History for a Better World (Hisbowed), on Thursday sensitised the students of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Staff Secondary School, in a dramatic way, to appreciate the importance of history in human life especially as Nigerians.

Mr. Fred Daniel, The Executive Director of the NGO, said the choice of the sensitisation at the NDA Staff Secondary School, was as a result of their large number and the military environment which played key role in the history of Nigeria.

Daniels, who is also a history Teacher at Albidayatu Jameelah International school, said that for Nigeria to develop in every aspect of endeavor, it must appreciate its history.

He, said that this would give clearer view for the present and prediction of the future.

Daniels said the idea of the sensitisation was born out of his observations during teachings in classroom, where he discovered facts which did not only add value to students offering history as a subject, but to students entirely.

He added that they organised the event to ensure that students who are the society's closest sphere of influence did not loose tracks of history.

"Our history as a nation is beautiful, but our story out there is bad.

"History as a subject has suffered in and out of school curriculum, it had affected in the long run our developmental process of Nigeria," Daniels said.

He therefore said the developmenal challenges Nigeria is facing which included leadership, would be overcomed.

He gave example with China, that as an economic giant, they had before now struggled even to feed as a nation, but developed a sustainable programme which included consumption and production of their own local contents for some duration of years.

The Teacher noted that Nigeria as a nation, could also look inward at some things it could do deliberately to grow economically even if it was painstaking, so as to leave behind a nation that would be better for the next generation.

“If we can study and reminisce the history of all the developed countries and how they transformed to what they are today, we will derive logic and some senses on how we can also develop economically,” he said.

He noted that the world needed to know that it doesn’t matter one’s professional, there are facts which should be known irrespective of profession.

Speaking further, the Executive Director said history, being embedded in everything, could be specifically useful by learning from the mistakes of the past of our leaders, families, communities, among others to better it in the present and plan for the future.

He restated the NGO's committment in ensuring students keep to track of history, noting that they have designed some packages to ensure the subject has new story.

"We have plans to put into cartoon forms the characters you have been told about on some social media sites, we will also make and upload music videos that are historical in nature," he said.

He urged the students not to shy away from reading history books, adding that it would keep them in tune with their histories to enable them progress in life.

“You must not take that saying which says if you want to hide something from an African, put it in a book; we must encourage them to read vast, including history of our continent and country,” Daniels said.

The News Agency Nigeria (NAN), reports that short movie clips were played on slave trade, Biafran war, and how the Hausa society began, among others.

NAN also reports that team members of the NGO, made presentations of historical events, stating accurately their dates of occurrence, beginning and end, respectively.

The students dramatised positive historic events in Nigeria, the independent speech by Sir Abukakar Tafawa-Balewa and other anticidents that happened before Independence in 1960.(NAN) (www.nannews.ng)

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