Jonathan, Gordon Brown Launch Back-To-School Campaign For 10.5m Children

[Shola Sholaz]

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."

[Folami David]

This is a very good campaign I must say.
Wonderful initiative!
Nice one....