By; Tina Phineas, Yola.
The Liquefied Natural Gas Company of Nigeria, LNG has awarded complete secondary school scholarship to Ten primary school students living in the Internally Displaced Persons camp of the Catholic Church of Yola .
The scholarship will cover the cost of the children’s education from the first year to the sixth year of their secondary school education across federal government colleges in Nigeria.
The Catholic Bishop of Yola, Bishop Dami Mamza who made the disclosure Sunday in Yola, Adamawa state during a press briefing at the IDPs camp, maintained that each child will be entitled to about three hundred and fifty thousand naira annually throughout the duration of their secondary school period.
Bishop Mamza said, “the evil that the boko haram terrorist meant has become a blessing in disguise. Under normal circumstances, no one will think of giving scholarship to these people in Goza or Madagali, but these children have today been given opportunity to become useful members of their community”.
He maintained that the military must be commended for its outstanding progress in the fight against insurgency and for making the dream of a return home for the displaced persons a reality.
“We appreciate the LNG for this gesture and we call on other
well-meaning Nigerians to emulate LNG and extend its goodwill towards helping the Internally Displaced children obtain good education and thereby defeating the boko haram and its evil agenda of preventing young people from going to school”, He noted’
One of the beneficiaries of the scholarship, Suzanna Luka, 12, who dream of becoming a lawyer said, ’’Am so grateful to God for the opportunity and to LNG for making my dreams come true.’’
Rebecca Augustine, an IDP from Dar, in Madagali local government of Adamawa state, a mother to one of the beneficiaries said, ‘’we were thinking of how to get food to eat when we left our homes, this is more than what we expect. We pray for this company that God will bless them.’’
The St Theresa IDP camp has been housing IDPs for the past three years with over three thousand Internally Displaced Persons but due to advances made by the military in combating the the boko haram, the number of the IDPs in the camp have now shrunk to less than one thousand as most of them have returned home to begin rebuilding their lives all over again.
The Liquefied Natural Gas Company of Nigeria, LNG has awarded complete secondary school scholarship to Ten primary school students living in the Internally Displaced Persons camp of the Catholic Church of Yola .
The scholarship will cover the cost of the children’s education from the first year to the sixth year of their secondary school education across federal government colleges in Nigeria.
The Catholic Bishop of Yola, Bishop Dami Mamza who made the disclosure Sunday in Yola, Adamawa state during a press briefing at the IDPs camp, maintained that each child will be entitled to about three hundred and fifty thousand naira annually throughout the duration of their secondary school period.
Bishop Mamza said, “the evil that the boko haram terrorist meant has become a blessing in disguise. Under normal circumstances, no one will think of giving scholarship to these people in Goza or Madagali, but these children have today been given opportunity to become useful members of their community”.
He maintained that the military must be commended for its outstanding progress in the fight against insurgency and for making the dream of a return home for the displaced persons a reality.
“We appreciate the LNG for this gesture and we call on other
well-meaning Nigerians to emulate LNG and extend its goodwill towards helping the Internally Displaced children obtain good education and thereby defeating the boko haram and its evil agenda of preventing young people from going to school”, He noted’
One of the beneficiaries of the scholarship, Suzanna Luka, 12, who dream of becoming a lawyer said, ’’Am so grateful to God for the opportunity and to LNG for making my dreams come true.’’
Rebecca Augustine, an IDP from Dar, in Madagali local government of Adamawa state, a mother to one of the beneficiaries said, ‘’we were thinking of how to get food to eat when we left our homes, this is more than what we expect. We pray for this company that God will bless them.’’
The St Theresa IDP camp has been housing IDPs for the past three years with over three thousand Internally Displaced Persons but due to advances made by the military in combating the the boko haram, the number of the IDPs in the camp have now shrunk to less than one thousand as most of them have returned home to begin rebuilding their lives all over again.
