Cultural practices are a major part of the community plan put in place by the community leadership for proper governance. Due to human nature and its quest for development, these practices change overtime; while some remain as beneficial as ever, some are tagged as being harmful since their demerits are adjudged to have devastating effects on people (victims); hence the call for discarding such harmful cultural practices is inevitable. To this end, the paper examined community education as a vital tool for combating harmful cultural practices in Nigeria. To achieve this, the paper discussed the concepts of harmful cultural practices and that of community education. The paper goes further to discuss some harmful cultural practices and their health implication to people and to the entire community. Finally, and most importantly, the paper discussed various strategies employed by community education in combating harmful cultural practices in our community. It was recommended that curriculum for primary and post primary schools be reformed in such a way that it accommodates community education and all important contents to advance frontier of knowledge.
