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,” ...

GOVERNOR AMBODE,TODAY DIRECTED N11 BILLION TO BE RELEASED TO OFFSET PENSION LIABILITIES.

                           According to a statement issued by the Head of Service,Mrs Shade Jaji,the directive is part of efforts by the present administration to find a holistic solution to the issue of payment of pension entitlements to retirees under the Pay-as-You-Go pension Scheme which was discontinued in April,2007 as well as outstanding accrued pension rights due to retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme.Jaji said that the state Government has developed a comprehensive payment plan to resolve all outstanding pension issues in the immediate {short},medium and long terms.The short and immediate term plan,according to her,is for pension payments to MDAs and Parastatals including Local Governments and the State Universal Basic Education Board,SUBEB,which will be made monthly commencing from August 2015.The Head of Service said that these efforts were the outcome of painstaking deliberations by the Public Service Pensions Office,the Lagos State Pensions Commission,the Head of Service and the empathy of Governor Ambode to reduce,if not totally clear the outstanding liabilities due to retirees in the mainstream public service,Local Governments/SUBEB and Parastatals in the state.The N11 billion will be used to offset pension liabilities in arrears since 2010.

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  1. Abeg let them pay ooo, my mum is a Lagos state pensioner, and has not recieved a kobo two years after retirement.

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