No fewer than 184 Nigerian students from four different schools visited the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), Lagos, on Thursday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the students who came on tour of the museum were from Winning Edge Montessori School, Festac Town (50); Brightlight School, Ajah (28); De Stars Model School, Ajegunle (30) and Geo Ann Private School (76).
Some of the students shared some of the knowledge gained with a NAN correspondent.
Emmanuel Ajayi from Brightlight Schools said he had understood what reincarnation meant in the olden days, likewise salient aspects of fertility and birth.
” I was made to understand the essence of using palm kernel oil for the skin of babies, palm oil and some other local products,” he said.
Anjolaoluwa Olaonipekun of Geo Ann Private School said she got to know that swords, shields, bows and arrows were the weapons of warfare used in the olden days before the advent of guns, bullets and all.
Olaonipekun also got to see clay pots which were used to preserve drinking water as it normally chills water as against refrigerators used now.
” This is an eye opener for me, knowing where we are coming from and where we are now. It is an interesting visit,” she said.
Modesty Abii, a pupil of Winning Edge Montessori School, gave a vivid description of the car of late former Nigerian President, General Murtala Mohammed, ,who was assassinated and killed on Feb. 13, 1976.
Abi said he was made to understand that there was a period in the history of human existence when occurrences were inscribed on elephant tusk in a bid to keep history.
“This is a place to be.
“I have learnt a lot, some of which include the story surrounding the death of late General Murtala Mohammed and how the people in the olden days tried to keep history even before the advent of books and pens,” he said. (NAN)
