ATIKU PLEDGES SCHOLARSHIP TO VIRAL NIGER TEEN MINER. (PHOTO).

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 Atiku pledges scholarship to viral Niger teen miner Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Sunday said his “heart breaks” each time he watches a viral video of a teenage artisanal miner, Yusuf Aliyu, speaking at a mining site in Niger State after the deaths of 37 miners in the state. Atiku, in a statement posted on his X handle, said he was prepared to support the boy’s education, describing him as a child whose intelligence and confidence should be nurtured in a classroom rather than by working at a mining site. “I have watched Yusuf Aliyu’s video repeatedly, and each time, my heart breaks. A child with such intelligence, clarity and confidence should be in a classroom building his future—not struggling for survival in a community surrounded by gold but buried in poverty. “I cannot look at him and see an ‘illegal miner.’ I see a Nigerian child failed by the country that should have protected him. I see brilliance trapped by poverty and enormous promise abandoned by leadership,” ...

SHELL PLANS TO PAY $51MILLION TO NIGERIANS AS COMPENSATION?

               According to sources,Royal Dutch Shell is ready to pay up to 30 million pounds {$51 million} in compensation for two oil spills in Nigeria in 2008 after a London court rejected claim.Around 15,000 residents of the Bodo community in the Niger Delta represented by a law firm Leigh Day,appeared in 2011 to a London court for more than 300 million pounds in compensation.Claimants say that the two spills resulted  in the leakage of 500,000 barrels of oil but Shell estimated the volume at aound 4,000 barrels.The lawyer representing the claimants rejected the sum of 30 million pounds in September 2013,and June 20 2014.The London High court on friday June 20 2014,rejected the claimant's attempts to expand the scope of the compensation,ruling that the pipeline operator could not be held responsible for damage caused by oil theft.A trial is planned to start in May 2015 in Nigeria,but shell urged the claimants to reach a settlement before hand.

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