Three ex-militants bag first class degree from UK universities (photo)

– Three ex-militants have graduated with First class degree from UK universities

– Eighteen other students from different disciplines also graduated with second class upper division

– Paul Boroh, the Coordinator of Presidential Amnesty Programme, congratulated the graduates for making the country proud

Nicholas Goodness, Terubein Fawei and Lucky Azibanagein, three repentant militants have bagged First class degree from UK universities.

Eighteen other students in various UK universities from different disciplines also graduated with second class upper division.

Premium Times reports that they got Nigerian government scholarships to study abroad under the Niger Delta Amnesty programme.

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Goodness and Fawei who graduated from the University of Bedfordshire finished with first class honours in public relations, telecommunication and networking engineering respectively, while Azibanagein graduated with first class in mechanical engineering and Robotic system from the University of Liverpool.

Paul Boroh, the Coordinator of Presidential Amnesty Programme, in an event organised by the Nigerian High Commission in the UK, on Friday, July 29, congratulated the graduates for making Nigeria proud.

He restated President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment towards ensuring that the amnesty programme is sustained and its desired goals achieved.

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Boroh 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”.

He cautioned the ‘economic saboteurs’ to embrace dialogue and support the president on his agenda to develop the Niger Delta region.

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