Nigeria, Jan. 15 -- Nigeria is the only country in the world in which history is not taught.

This policy has done us much harm and represents perhaps the greatest, most savage, most brutal and most destructive blow to the pysche, confidence, knowledge, intellectual acumen and mental health of our people.

The consequence of this egregious and unbelievable error and grave oversight is the fact that we are now having to contend with a vast population of over 220 million people who are essentially ignorant of their past, have no knowledge of their noble historical heritage, and predicate and rationalise their nation's existence on the basis of lies, misinformation, disinformation, falsehood, folklore, fairy tales, fantasy, self-serving and ...