Three ex-militants bag first class degrees in UK varsities, 18 others get second class

Three former militants who studied under the Niger Delta Amnesty Programme have bagged First
class honours in UK universities. Eighteen others students also obtained Second Class Upper (2:1) from various disciplines.

Nicholas
Goodness and Terubein Fawei graduated from the
University of Bedfordshire with first class honours in public
relations, telecommunication and networking engineering respectively.

Lucky Azibanagein also graduated with first class in mechanical
engineering and Robotic system from the University of Liverpool.

The
Coordinator of Presidential Amnesty Programme, Paul Boroh,
congratulated the graduates for making Nigeria proud and restated
President Buhari’s commitment towards ensuring that the goals of the
amnesty programme is achieved.

“President Buhari is ever ready to implement the blueprint upon
which
the amnesty programme was established. The era of impunity and phoney
contracts are gone for good,”  Mr. Boroh said at an event organised by
the Nigerian High Commission in the UK on Friday, July 29.

Mr. Boroh also called on
other militants such as the Niger Delta Avengers to emulate the
militants who “laid down their arms to embrace education that can make
them indispensable to the world.”

Source: Premium Times