7 March 2011
The Federal Government of Nigeria has embarked on full degree certificate programmes for ex-militants from the Niger Delta region of the country.
The development, which is part of the presidential amnesty program aimed at rehabilitating former militants in the region, is the first of its kind by the government since it started the demobiliation, rehabilitation and reintegration training for the former militants.
"This is the first set of ex-combatants to be trained on selected degree courses and today's event is unique in the sense that the delegates we are sending forth today are not going to skill acquisition or vocational training centres. They are going to the university," said Kingsley Kuku, Special Adviser to the president on Niger Delta Matters, at an orientation ceremony for 74 ex-combatants leaving the Murtala Muhammed International Airport , Lagos for Malaysia
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