‘immoral book’ Folashade Adebayo The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board has said that it lacks the power to withdraw In Dependence, the book currently being used for the Use of English Test in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The board, however, said it had invited assessors at the Nigerian Academy of Letters, the highest authority on arts in the country, to propose amendments to portions of the book deemed graphic and immoral by stakeholders in the education sector. It would be recalled that the Parent-Teacher-Association of The Crescent School, Lagos, had recently petitioned the JAMB, the National Examination Council and the Federal Ministry of Education, over some recommended texts for candidates sitting for the UTME, the Basic Education Certificate Examination and pupils in the Junior Secondary School 1. In a letter written to the agencies and signed by the Head of School, The Crescent Schools, Alhaja Fatimah Mahmud-Oyekan, the books – In Dependence...
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