Malala to meet President Jonathan on Monday

As part of the International support for Nigeria’s effort to rescue the students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, abducted by Boko Haram, Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani school girl shot by the Taliban in her native country, is in Nigeria.
Malala is coming under the auspices of the United Nations observance of the Malala Day, which is meant to ask children “to stand up for education”
As part of the visit, Malala will meet with President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday and later also have audience with the Ministers of Education, Women Affairs and the coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, who oversees the Safe School Programme of the Federal Government.
Earlier on Sunday, Malala met with members of the National Information Centre led by Mike Omeri, where she was updated on government’s efforts to stem insurgency in parts of the country and especially efforts at the safe return of the Chibok girls.
The Federal Government welcomes the visit of this icon of educational rights for the girl child and young women. It hopes that this will join in further drawing world support to Nigeria and its government’s effort to ensure the safe return of the Chibok girls and global campaign against terror
The Federal Government reiterates its determination to promote the right to education of all children in the country in line with various international commitments to which it is a signatory.
It would be recalled that the Federal Government introduced the Almajiri school system in 2012, established new federal universities to ensure that all Nigerian children of school age are given the opportunity to acquire proper education no matter their circumstances in life.