Former Minister of Education and Bring Back Our Girls campaigner, Obiageli Ezekwesili has called on President Barrack Obama to do more to help find the girls abducted by Islamist group Boko Haram.

“If he could get Osama bin Laden, he could get our girls,” she said.

Ezekwesili, who was named one of the world’s 100 most influe
ntial people in TIME’s annual issue this year, met with Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., and with Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, who runs a school for former child soldiers in Uganda, at the TIME 100 gala in New York City on Tuesday.

“It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters.These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls, that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you,” she added.

Power said the U.S. was looking at ways to bolster the fight against Boko Haram, which has killed and kidnapped thousands in Nigeria over the past few months. “We’ve been looking at how to throw our weight behind an international force.”

Nyirumbe, who wrote on Ezekwesili for the 2015 TIME 100, said that the meeting between her, Ezekwesili and Power reminded her of “the power of women.”

“I would like to see a lot of people more involved in practical solutions to practical problems,” she said. “Women have got to the point where we can turn the world upside down.”

Other Nigerians who were named among the TIME 100 are President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, bestselling author, Chimamanda Adichie and Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/oby-ezekwesili-attends-time-100-gala-wants-obama-to-rescue-chibok-girls/

Yes ooo0

cry no more oby,there is help on the way it's just next month

I hope shecow was there too to grace the blood-red carpet. TIME magazine has turned a rather serious issue to comedy movie. Tell me, who have not taken advantage of the evil attack on our nation to fatten their bank account

olu77:
I hope shecow was there too. TIME magazine has turned a rather serious issue to comedy movie

yes o! If not for anything, for including shecow.. Shecow is obviously a coward for not bn there.

I smell front page

olu77:
I hope shecow was there too to grace the blood-red carpet. TIME magazine has turned a rather serious issue to comedy movie. Tell me, who have not taken advantage of the evil attack on our nation to fattened their bank account

abeg let them fatten their accounts..All we want is our girls. If they can help us retrieve them, it ll be worth it. This is what you get when you have a government thatz insensitive..i just hope the incoming government will help bring back our girls on time b4 obama thinks of intervening

Obama is a human being like every Nigerian,lets utilise the resources we have first before calling for help.
Depending too much on foreign help cant really take us anywhere.
They can help in training our soldiers but not fighting our own battle.

Why Shecow no attend na? Make him shoe off him swag on the red carpet

the woman dress and the backdrop na die.... chaiii she looked "invisible"

Congrats to her.
But that's how u know attention seekers. She had a great job but wanted to be seen and heard.
And no one should say its wholly for humanity cos she would've done it before her career in the USA

I like her by the way

tinkinjow:
Congrats to her.
But that's how u know attention seekers. She had a great job but wanted to be seen and heard.
And no one should say its wholly for humanity cos she would've done it before her career in the USA

na wa o! Na everything be attention seeking? A woman as influential as obi? Its breaks my heart to see pple reason this way.

All is well