12 Chibok girls graduate from American University of Nigeria

Vice President Kashim Shettima expressed excitement on Saturday as 12 of the girls abducted from their secondary schoolhouse successful Chibok successful 2014, but who yet regained freedom, formally completed their assemblage acquisition astatine the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola.

The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Imaan Suleiman-Ibrahim, besides celebrated the graduation of the 12 girls, remarking that adversity is not the extremity of beingness erstwhile the close corrective steps are taken.

The 12 were among hundreds abducted from Chibok 12 years ago, but were aboriginal freed and subsequently enrolled astatine AUN with sponsorship from the Federal Government.

Vice President Shettima, during AUN’s 17th Commencement (Convocation) of the Class of 2026 successful Yola, said that though the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls remains a coiled connected the conscience of the nation, immoderate measurement of redemption is being achieved arsenic 12 much of the girls implicit their assemblage education.

Represented astatine the juncture by the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Professor Abdullahi Ribadu, Shettima commended AUN, a backstage assemblage owned by erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar, for holding the girls to the aforesaid world standards arsenic different students.

“To the girls, I guarantee you that your state has not finished its work to you,” Shettima said, portion the Minister of Wome...