By our reporter 20.8.2026
Dr Segun Adebayo the executive director of the Centre for African Policy, Research and Advisory (CAFPRA), has kicked against comprehensive sexuality education in schools.
He said during a media chat in Abuja that this development is the “greatest assault” on the health and innocence of children. He argued that the introduction of immoral sexual values to school children, were ‘ungodly values’ designed to defile and corrupt them.
“Minors are exposed to unimaginable sexual depravities such as heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, asexuality, etc,” he said.
The executive director urged well-meaning Nigerians to unite in protecting children by rejecting comprehensive sexuality education.
He warned that failure to act could result in the country having a future generation of young adults he described as highly sexually debased.
Also speaking, the organisation’s Legal Adviser, Sonnie Ekwowusi, raised concerns over the use of what he termed euphemisms as a means of persuading the public to accept what he described as narratives of moral decadence.
Ekwowusi alleged that concepts including gender equality and sexual rights were being presented as part of an underlying agenda aimed at child defilement.
He specifically urged the National Assembly and other legislative bodies to reject what he described as attempts to persuade them to legalise comprehensive sexuality education.
Ekwowusi also criticised narratives around sexual and reproductive health rights, alleging that they were intended to promote abortion.
He advocated a return to African moral values, which he said would help raise disciplined and obedient children and preserve a tradition for which Africa is known.
According to him, Western countries were investing heavily in efforts to erode African moral values and dismantle existing school values, replacing them with what he described as immoral ones.