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Future Prowess: Putting smiles on the faces of orphans in Borno
By Hamza Idris and Yahaya Ibrahim, Maiduguri | Published Date Oct 20, 2012 5:00 AM Future Prowess, a private formal school with solid Islamic foundation based in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital has been putting smiles on the faces of orphans in the state. Since 2009 when security and safety of lives becam
Nigerian wins 2017 UN Nansen Refugees Award
A Nigerian, Mr Zannah Mustapha, the Director, Future Prowess Islamic Foundation School, has won the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) 2017 Nansen Refugees Award, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Mustapha, the first Nigerian Laureate of the award, will be unveiled on Monday in Abuja. UNHCR and the Norwegian Ref
Nigerian girls from Nansen award winner’s school dream again
Mustapha’s Future Prowess Islamic Foundation restores hope destroyed by Boko Haram conflict By Jonathan Clayton in Maiduguri, Nigeria | 21 September 2017 It is morning assembly at Treasures Richfield College, a small secondary school in Maiduguri, the dusty, the wind-blown capital of Borno Stat
In Nigeria, a school takes on the fight against Boko Haram
By Linus Unah // 15 February 2018 MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Just a stone’s throw from the banks of River Gadabul — 4 kilometers from the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri — sits a cinder-block building housing three classrooms. Inside one of the classrooms, 8-year-old Abubakar Ibrahim reads from a textbook spread be
UNHCR enrols 300 orphans in Borno private school
The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) has enrolled about 300 children who lost either or both parents in the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State in a private school for orphans in Maiduguri. The children were selected from thousands of orphans on a waiting list of admission into Future Prowess Islam