CURBING MORAL DECADENCE IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN SOCIETY THROUGH MORAL EDUCATION
Résumé
Right from the colonial invasion and conquest up to the present day, Nigeria has witnessed progressive degeneration of morality. Before the colonial era, the Nigerian society was characterized by the existence of norms that were pivotal to the running of the society. However, in recent times, all the prohibitions that aided the maintenance of high moral and disciplined society have been neglected and abandoned due to the influence of western culture mainly brought about by colonial invasion. This has given rise to the manifestation of different shades of immoral acts in the society. There is therefore the need for moral reorientation for Nigerian citizens. The thrust of this paper is to examine how moral decadence can be curbed in contemporary Nigerian Society through Moral Education. Decline in parental authority and domestic values, influence of science and technology, media influence, materialism, poverty, and the collapse of discipline in our schools were identified as the major causes of moral decay in Nigeria. The paper maintains that