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 the Nigerian Police Command in River state,they said on their website that they have dismissed F/No.441757 Cpl Chima Nweke from the Nigeria Police Force.Chima Nweke was involved in an unauthorized use of service weapon on 26-08-2014 at about 3:00pm at Eberi-Omuma Roundabout in Omuma Local Government Area of the state when he fired his weapon without justification,though no injury was recorded.Chima Nweke was tried in an orderly room {Department court} and he was found guilty as charge.
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