Tinubu’s Islamization Scholar Is Rewriting Nigerian History And Force-Feeding It To Your Children. You’re Not Allowed To See It.
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January 15, 2026
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell, 1984
By Mike Arnold
For more than fifteen years, Nigerian students were not taught their own history. Entire generations passed through school without learning about the Sokoto Caliphate’s jihad and the slave raids that sustained it. They never heard how the British redrew maps to serve imperial logic—grafting peoples into an artificial nation held together by threats and treaties. The blockade, pogroms, and mass starvation that defined Biafra were not studied, not discussed, not debated.
They were erased.
Now the government says Nigerian History is coming back—compulsory from Primary 1 to JSS 3, integrated in senior secondary. Sounds like good news, right?
Wrong.
The actual detailed content remains hidden from the general public. No free, complete syllabus is available. No full lesson plans are openly shared. No sample textbooks or chapter previews are public. No list of panel members, writers, or editors has been disclosed. Access to the full schemes requires paid NERDC membership (₦5,000–₦12,500 depending on level). High-level topic summaries exist on teacher sites, but the substance—what is actually taught about jihad, Biafra, colonial borders—is locked away. Yet praise for it? That’s everywhere.
Influencers, politicians, and pro-government mouthpieces flooded social media with the same phrases, almost word for word: “a progressive step,” “instills patriotism,” “reconnects youth with heritage,” “a win for national unity.” Most posted within hours of each other. None referenced any actual material. None asked a single question.
Coordinated. Instant. Scripted. They’re celebrating a curriculum they’ve never read. Ask yourself why.
Reno Omokri led the charge in September 2025 with this post:
“Commend the Tinubu administration for making such a progressive policy… instilling patriotism… people who do not know their history are unlikely to learn from it.”
Within hours, the exact phrasing echoed across state media, education bloggers, and regime-friendly influencers. “Progressive policy.” “Patriotism.” “Unity.” “Reconnects youth.” No deviation. No questions. No one asking what’s actually taught about the jihad that turned the North into a caliphate. About the slave raids. About the ethnic cleansing that followed. About Biafra’s horrors. About the British decision to empower Northern emirs while carving up the South.
This is not organic discussion. It’s coordinated messaging. And Reno Omokri—the ultimate political weathervane—is the perfect conductor. This is the same man who once savaged Tinubu as a “drug baron,” questioned his credentials, and vowed never to support his presidency. Post-2023, he flipped overnight—now Tinubu’s loudest defender, spinning every policy as genius while attacking critics with venom. Proven to say anything to please his boss. A slimy shill who rewrites his own history faster than the curriculum he praises. A bootlicker for hire, willing to parrot whatever line keeps him relevant.
And who is the man now overseeing this entire national curriculum overhaul?
Prof. Salisu Shehu.
Executive Secretary of NERDC. Appointed by Tinubu in December 2024. The single most powerful figure directing what Nigerian children will learn about their past.
His lifelong academic specialty?
“The Islamization of Knowledge.”
Seriously. He literally wrote the book on it: “Islamization of Knowledge: Conceptual Background, Vision and Tasks” (1999, IIIT Nigeria)—a foundational text for reframing modern education through an Islamic lens. Former National Coordinator of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) Nigeria. Deputy Secretary-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA). Turbaned as Khadimul Qur’an in 2024 for promoting Islamic knowledge.
This is not coincidence. This is capture.
A man whose entire career has been dedicated to infusing secular knowledge with Islamic principles now controls the gate to Nigeria’s national memory. The content? Locked away. The praise? Uniform and robotic. The questions? Silenced.
Who controls the present controls the past. And who controls the past controls the future.
If the curriculum teaches the Sokoto Caliphate jihad as noble “reformist unification” without mentioning the violence, enslavement, and forced conversions…
If it reduces Biafra to a minor “civil conflict” without acknowledging the pogroms, starvation blockade, or genocide-level death toll…
If it frames British amalgamation as administrative brilliance rather than a cynical stitch-up that empowered one region while marginalizing others…
Then they are not educating the children. They are indoctrinating them. They are installing software updates to the national consciousness.
This is sinister. This is dangerous. This is conquest by curriculum.
I am calling on every teacher, parent, student, whistleblower inside NERDC, every education official with a conscience: Leak it. Share the schemes of work. The lesson plans. The textbook drafts. The panel member lists.
Because if the history being taught has been filtered through the lens of a lifelong Islamization advocate—while the nation pretends it’s just “patriotism and unity”—then this is not reform. This is erasure. And the world needs to see it.
Drop the documents. Expose the pages.
Let the truth shake the earth.
An #EarthShaker Investigation
Mike Arnold is a former mayor of Blanco, Texas, founder of Africa Arise, and executive producer of Me & Ms. Hanatu. He has made 16 trips to Nigeria investigating genocide, building schools in IDP camps, and exposing state-sponsored lies. Learn more at MikeArnold.org.
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