57 Rescued Chibok Girls start Academic Programmes At The American University of Nigeria Yola
57 Of the Chibok girls who
were abducted from their school hostel in 2014 and who were letter rescued in
2016 have successfully commenced various academic progams at the American
University of Nigeria Yola Adamawa State.
The 57 girls joined their counterparts who
were also matriculating to start their first years in the school. They got admission
as a fulfillment of the promise the Nigerian government made when they were
rescued. They got admitted under the
foundation program in the university on the federal governments on Nigeria
scholarship program.
The director of communications Mr. Can
Okereke on Wednesday that the school tasked the girls to brace themselves up
for the American style education stating that they are meant to find solutions
to many of the global challenges.
The statement reads in part - “Whether
it is climate change, challenges to our very health, threats of violence,
injustice, desertification, inequality, poverty, pollution, tyranny, all our
problems are man-made and so are the solutions.”
“The American University of Nigeria has just held this year’s
annual Convocation and Pledge Ceremony, which included fifty-seven of the
rescued “Chibok Girls,” now young women and first-year university students”.
