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,” ...
Today wednesday,it was reported that Sierra Leone's capital Freetown has suffered a fresh outbreak of Ebola.Health officials say there are fears of further infections as the cases occurred in a densely populated slum.Sierrs Leone's National Ebola Response Centre said there was great concern because all Ebola quarantine facilities in Freetown had been closed.Health officials said six people have been under observation since the first of the new cases.A casual labourer tested positive on June 17 while Liberia was just declared Ebola free in May,but hopes that the decease is gone for good,has been dashed due to the new reported case of Ebola.The latest cases were found in the Freetown slum of Magazine.The north of Sierra Leon continues to be affected by Ebola,as it's neighbouring country Guinea.Last month,six people were put isolation in prison in Guinea after being accused of travelling with a corpse of a relative who had died of Ebola.
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