NIGERIAN PUPILS TO PARTICIPATE IN MODEL UN CONFERENCE

 

Three public school pupils from Rivers State have been selected to represent Nigeria at the National High School Model United Nations Conference scheduled for UN headquarters in New York, United States of America.

 

The Model United Nations Conference, a catch-them-young initiative, is a forum that gathers international pupils from all over the world to deliberate on common world difficulties and challenges that all countries are increasingly affected by. The forum offers invaluable insights into the full range of UN activities and responsibilities. It will hold between March 6 and 9, this year.

 

A statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the state ministry of education, Mr. Ugochukwu Iwuchukwu, after the state Commissioner for Education, Dame Alice Lawrence-Nemi received the pupils in her office, stated that they were selected after passing a written and oral test conducted for pupils by the state ministry of education last year.

The three pupils are John Friday Pepple from Oginigba Comprehensive Community Secondary School, Port Harcourt; Miss Vivian Miracle Sorgia of Bodo City Girls Secondary School, Bodo; and Miss Seke-Adim Tamuno Reuben of Community Secondary School Amadi-Ama Port Harcourt.

 

The statement added that the pupils had been assigned to one agency of the UN and two committees of the agency, adding that they had been given two topics each that they would deliberate on during the four-day conference.

The objective of the MUN conference, is to seek through discussion, negotiation and debate, solutions to the various problems of the world.