Borno Partners UNICEF To Educate 47 Boko Haram Victims, Orphans

SAN FRANCISCO, September 22, (THEWILL) – Borno State Government has restated its commitment to the education of the victims of Boko Haram and those orphaned by the insurgency.

The government said its collaboration with the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) was informed by the need to achieve this objective.

The state commissioner of higher education, Alhaji Ahmed Usman Jaha, who restated the resolve of the government , said : “Recently, with the gracious assistance of UNICEF that indicated its readiness to sponsor 47 orphans to Madona University, Port Harcourt, the state government guaranteed to provide logistics, including transportation and other essential needs of the students to the sum of

N11 million.
“At this rate of seriousness on the part of the government and with the cooperation of the good people of Borno state, and God's willing with the growing hope for peace restoration in the state, this administration is more than ever before determined to take education and human capacity building to higher levels.”