Yes Nigeria's very own Atiku Abubakar, I think its a good initiative personally *wink*
So here's the post culled from Atiku's Blog he shares his thoughts about education. Read and share your thoughts. I give him a #thumbsup he no pay me oooo! hehehe
My name is Atiku Abubakar. I wouldn’t be who I am today without education.
I have always talked about how I attended school very much against
the wish of my late father. My dad was actually sent to prison for
barring his son from access to education.
As my biography makes clear, I
only started attending school after the authorities put my father in
jail. Amazingly, this poor boy who could have missed the chance of an
education grew to occupy one of the highest offices of the land. This is
the power of education; it holds the potential to transform lives by
liberating human beings from poverty, ignorance and disease.
Because of this personal example, all my life I have aspired to,
working with fellow countrymen and women, create and expand access
to education for every child in the land. More than twenty years ago,
long before I became Vice President, with the able support of my wife, I
started my first school, a kindergarten/primary school. In the time
since then the venture has expanded to university level, providing
world-class education to multitudes of young persons – many of whom are
indigent students who get generous concessions and scholarships, because
of my firm belief that poverty should never be allowed to stand in the
way of a great education.
