{"id":10550,"date":"2016-08-01T19:55:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T19:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=10550"},"modified":"2016-08-01T19:55:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T19:55:59","slug":"three-ex-militants-bag-first-class-degrees-in-uk-varsities-18-others-get-second-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=10550","title":{"rendered":"Three Ex-Militants Bag First Class Degrees In UK Varsities, 18 Others Get Second Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p><strong>Three Ex-<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Paul-Boro.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7566\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7566\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Paul-Boro-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Boro\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Paul-Boro-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Paul-Boro.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>militants who got Nigerian government scholarships to study abroad under the Niger Delta Amnesty programme have bagged First class honours in UK universities.<br \/>\nEighteen others got Second Class Upper (2:1).<br \/>\nNicholas Goodness and Terubein Fawei who graduated from the University of Bedfordshire finished with first class honours in public relations, telecommunication and networking engineering respectively.<br \/>\nLucky Azibanagein also graduated with first class in mechanical engineering and Robotic system from the University of Liverpool.<\/strong><br \/>\nIn an event organised by the Nigerian High Commission in the UK, on Friday, the Coordinator of Presidential Amnesty Programme, Paul Boroh, congratulated the graduates for making Nigeria proud.<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=9528&amp;ad_type=61&amp;rl=180\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>He restated President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s commitment towards ensuring that the amnesty programme is sustained and its desired goals achieved.<br \/>\n\u201cPresident 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,\u201d Mr. Boroh said.<br \/>\nMr. Boroh, a retired General of the Nigerian Army, also called on other militants such as the Niger Delta Avengers to emulate the militants who \u201claid down their arms to embrace education that can make them indispensable to the world\u201d.<br \/>\nHe cautioned the \u2018economic saboteurs\u2019 to embrace dialogue and support Mr. Buhari on his agenda to develop the Niger Delta region.<br \/>\nApart from the three that bagged First Class, 18 other students in various UK universities from different disciplines also graduated with second class upper division.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Ex-militants who got Nigerian government scholarships to study abroad under the Niger Delta Amnesty programme have bagged First class honours in UK universities. Eighteen others got Second Class Upper (2:1). Nicholas Goodness and Terubein Fawei who graduated from the University of Bedfordshire finished with first class honours in public relations, telecommunication and networking engineering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[284,201,1918],"class_list":["post-10550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-amnesty-programme","tag-niger-delta","tag-paul-boroh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Paul-Boro.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2Ka","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10551,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions\/10551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}