BringBackOurGirls: My advice to Boko Haram and President Jonathan— Malala - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/bringbackourgirls-advice-boko-haram-president-jonathan-malala/#sthash.IvNIgC4e.dpuf

To mark her 17th birthday, Malala Yousafzai, the young, precocious Pakistani girl who was shot and left for dead by the Taliban two years ago, visited Nigerian in solidarity with the over 200 girls abducted by members of the criminally- minded members of the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad, which in English means, “People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad”, and otherwise known as Boko Haram. She met some of the girls who escaped from the group; and she also had audience with Nigeria’s Minister of State, Education, Nyesom Wike. But Wike, true to type, shot himself on the foot when he tried to explain the issue of out-of-school children. He said of the 10.5 children, nine million were from the North, to which Malala’s father pilloried him: “I don’t know about the system that is here, we only know that there are over 10.5 million children that are out of school. But it brings very bad name to the country”. The issue is even if 10million of the out-of-school children are in the Delta Basin, they are still out-of-school children in Nigeria – the minister should have known that he was talking to people who are interested in best practices and not politics, the type he’s been playing in his home state of Rivers. Below are excerpts of Malala’s modest intervention in a crisis that Nigeria’s leaders across the political divide have mishandled. - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/bringbackourgirls-advice-boko-haram-president-jonathan-malala/#sthash.IvNIgC4e.dpuf