NBAIS Remains Indispensable; Here Is Why






The National Board For Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS), Recognized in the year 2011bu the National Council on Education and assigned a supervisory role over Research and Development (NERDC) in 2013 has come under intense criticisms and different shades of accusations, from the feeble to the unfounded, overtime by various commentators in the country.

However, thoughtful observation prudence point strongly to the complicity of it's rival body in the whole treacherous saga and/or machinations. Put starkly, the National Examination Council (NECO) seems to be the biggest, if ever there another force throwing it's weight behind these evil attempts to condemn the innocent board to the dustbin of history.

If anybody were in doubt, NECO has cleared such with an open letter addressed to the Honorable Minister of Education and dated 13th September, 2022 where in it came up with some frivolous arguments.
The letter NECO stated, was sequel to an invitation to present comments on a bill captioned thus; 
A BILL FOR AN ACT TO PROVIDE ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL BOARD FOR ARABIC AND ISLAMIC STUDIES TO HAVE RESPONSIBILITY AND ITS DUE ADMINISTRATION, AND FOR RELATED MATTERS (HB. 1728).

NECO thus tried to specify the mandatory functions or powers of the NBAIS and made what it deemed a good case for the dispensability of the board.

It will interest you to have a perusal of it's three feeble arguments, which are as follows, according to the council;
(i) The eligibility to present certificates at the  Higher Education Level  should be limited to disciplines strictly related to Arabic and Islamic studies, such that the certificates offered to candidates do not contain conventional subjects as in the case of either NECO, WAEC and NBTEB.
(ii) No mention of the word 'Examination' in the name of the board in the proposed Act. This make the name not being explieit but incomplete, and hence sounds very ambiguous if it is an Examination body.
(iii) There is the possibility of not having a national outlook as an Examination body since it may not capture some states or geopolitical zones where Arabic and Islamic studies are not sufficiently studied.

After enumerating it's stipulated functions, NECO ended the letter with a prayer this; We plead with the Federal government to avoid duplication of functions of the existing examination bodies by clearly demarcating the functions of NECO as presented above, in order to avoid proliferation of examination bodies in Nigeria.

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