President Goodluck Jonathan will, today, host the world, with Gordon Brown, former British Prime Minister and the United Nations Special Envoy for Education in attendance, as Nigeria launches a campaign to return 10.5 million out-of-school children back to school.
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It will be recalled that on Thursday, Mr. Gordon Brown brought two young women together in an online video exchange.
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They are Ojonwa Miachi, an Economics graduate from Bingham University in Karu, who is Nigeria's National Youth Advocate for Universal Education and the Millennium Development Goals; and Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban and has also had to leave her country.
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Both are demanding what 57 million girls and boys like them cannot have— the right to go to school even in times of conflict and, as a result, both see themselves at the centre of a 21st-century civil rights struggle.
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This freedom fight— as Malala and Ojonwa show— is now being led not by familiar adult voices but by young people themselves.
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Malala said: "Innocent girls only want to empower themselves through education. Obtaining education is every man and woman's birthright and no one is allowed to take away this right from them."
This is a very good campaign I must say.
Wonderful initiative!
Nice one....