NOBEL-PRIZE/PEACE-NIGERIA CHILDREN REAX Malala's Nobel win delights Nigerian children

Record ID: 174293

  • Title: NOBEL-PRIZE/PEACE-NIGERIA CHILDREN REAX Malala's Nobel win delights Nigerian children
  • Date: 10th October 2014
  • Summary: ABUJA, NIGERIA (OCTOBER 10, 2014) (REUTERS) STUDENTS WALKING INTO SCHOOL VARIOUS OF STUDENTS WALKING GIRLS TALKING (SOUNDBITE) (English) STUDENT, SHOWUNMI SEGUN, SAYING: "Malala winning this prize, it shows that girls - not because of their gender - they can always do more than what other people might cast them down to be, so I'm really excited for her." STUDENTS WALKING ON SCHOOL GROUNDS GIRLS WALKING AND TALKING (SOUNDBITE) (English) STUDENT, EKPENYONG, SAYING: "I have been inspired by her, in the sense that I can be able to stand up to a lot of people. Because whether we take it or not, in the society, there are a lot of challenges of females in education. So personally it has inspired me to be able to stand up to a lot of people, to society at large, to be able to show them that girls can do what boys can do." VARIOUS OF STUDENTS WALKING PAST (SOUNDBITE) (English) STUDENT, SHOWUNMI SEGUN, SAYING: "For what she had done already, she had already gotten a platform for her to work on, going around to be a female activist in the sense of education. But with her winning the Nobel peace prize now, it has given her even a greater platform to work on. Now even more people will know her name, wherever she goes, that influence that she always had will now be brought into the light." EXTERIOR OF SCHOOL SCHOOL LOGO
  • Embargoed: 25th October 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Nigeria
  • Country: Nigeria
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVADQYDOKCDULUZ53PU1QYUVLRHY
  • Story Text: Nigerian school students on Friday (October 10) expressed their delight at teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai being awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
    Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls' right to education.
    On Friday, the 17 year old became the youngest ever Nobel Prize winner. She was jointly awarded alongside Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian campaigner against child trafficking.
    The two were picked for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people, and for the right of all children to education, the Nobel Committee said.
    In July, Yousafzai visited Nigeria to show support for the group of schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants.
    She met parents of the more than 200 girls who were kidnapped by the militant group Boko Haram from a school in the north-eastern village of Chibok in April.
    News of Malala's Nobel victory brought smiles to the faces of school students in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
    "Malala winning this prize, it shows that girls - not because of their gender - they can always do more than what other people might cast them down to be, so I'm really excited for her," Showunmi Segun told Reuters Television.
    Another student, Ekpenyong, said Malala was somebody to look up to because of her advocacy for girls' right to education.
    "I have been inspired by her, in the sense that I can be able to stand up to a lot of people. Because whether we take it or not, in the society, there are a lot of challenges of females in education. So personally it has inspired me to be able to stand up to a lot of people, to society at large, to be able to show them that girls can do what boys can do," Ekpenyong said.
    Segun predicted the win would propel Malala's work to widespread exposure.
    "For what she had done already, she had already gotten a platform for her to work on, going around to be a female activist in the sense of education. But with her winning the Nobel peace prize now, it has given her even a greater platform to work on. Now even more people will know her name, wherever she goes, that influence that she always had will now be brought into the light," he said.
    The prize, worth about 1.1 million US dollars, will be presented in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who founded the award in his 1895 will.
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