ATIKU PLEDGES SCHOLARSHIP TO VIRAL NIGER TEEN MINER. (PHOTO).
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,” ...
According to French experts,who lost 51 french nationals in the crash said poor weather was the most likely cause of the crash of the Air Algeria flight that crashed in Northern Mali.Investigators at the scene of the crash in Northern Mali concluded the airline broke apart when it hit the ground,sadly no one survived.Soldiers arrived the scene today friday in the morning to secure the crash site near the northern Mali town of Gossi and to recover bodies.The black box flight recorders had already been recovered and would be analyzed.
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