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Hazrat Khalifatul Masih delivered a lecture at the Mapa Hall, Ibadan. The DAIL Y TIMES carried the following report in its issue of April15 :-- TEACH RELIGION TO ALL- FAITH LEADER The Supreme Head of the World Ahmadiyya Muslim Organisation, Hazrat Hafiz Mirza Ahmad, has called for the introduction of courses in religious education at all levels in Nigerian schools. Delivering a lecture at Ibadan this week Hazrat Ahmad said religious education would help accelerate the speed of discovery and set the search for new knowledge in direction relevant to man's well-being. "It may set us thinking of one another-and of all peoples of the world- as creatures with an equal right to live and prosper as creatures with duties towards themselves and their fellow beings," he said. Attitude Such an attitude, the religious leader stated, would put the pursuit of knowledge in its proper place. He called on students to offset the 'cramping influence" of specialisa tion which had become a feature of modern education. Rather, he urged them to be curious about fields of knowledge other than theirs'. Hazrat Ahmad declared: "Whatever our special interests or lines of study and discovery, we must not become indifferent to the rest of our environment". 17