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Ex-militants graduate with First Class from UK varsities

Boroh and three graduates

Boroh and three graduates

Three of the ex-agitators of the Niger Delta under the Presidential Amnesty Programme have graduated with First Class Honour degrees from universities in the United Kingdom.

This was stated in a statement issued by the media and communications consultant of the Amnesty Office, Mr. Owei Lakemfa, which emphasised that three of the ex-agitators made First Class from Liverpool and Bedfordshire Universities, while 19 other students under the programme completed their academic programmes with Second Class Honours Upper Division.

Lakemfa noted that a total of 144 students of the Amnesty Programme successfully completed various academic programmes in 17 UK universities.

He said, “Lucky Azibanagein had a First Class in Mechatronics and Robotic System Engineering from the University of Liverpool while Messrs. Torubein Fawei and Nicholas Nathaniel Goodnews made First Class in Telecommunications and Network Engineering, and Public Relations respectively, at the University of Bedfordshire.

“The 144 Amnesty students graduated from 17 universities in UK. Eight of them had Second Class Upper degrees in Law, Criminology, Accounting, Computer Science and Health and Social Care from the University of Bedfordshire.

“Six of them graduated with Second Class Upper from the University of Liverpool in Pharmacology, Geology, Maritime Business, Accounts & Finance, Politics and International Relations.

“Two had Second Class Upper from the Swansea University in Law and International Relations while one each graduated in the same Class from Anglia Ruskin, Plymouth and Portsmouth universities.”

Also, the Nigerian High Commission in the UK, on Friday, the Coordinator of Presidential Amnesty Programme, Paul Boroh, 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.

“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.

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