Dozens of the released Chibok girls have gained entry into the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, Adamawa State.
The girls kidnapped by Boko Haram from their hostel at Government Secondary School Chibok in April 2014 and released some five years ago had been attending a Foundation Program at the university under federal government scholarship.
Some of the girls, who spoke to our reporter, expressed delight over the development, saying it was an opportunity they had been looking forward to.
AUN’s director of Communications, Dan Okereke, confirmed that a total of 57 Chibok girls joined other matriculating students to commence their first year at the American-styled university.
“The American University of Nigeria has just held this year’s annual Convocation and Pledge Ceremony, which included fifty-seven of the rescued “Chibok Girls,” now young women and first-year university students”.
The statement quoted the AUN president/ Vice chancellor, Margee Ensign, as charging the matriculating students to find solutions to challenges facing humanity, saying the university’s role was providing solutions to local, national, regional and global problems.
“Whether it is climate change, challenges to our very health, threats of violence, injustice, desertification, inequality, poverty, pollution, tyranny, all our problems are man-made and so are the solutions,” Ensign stated.
