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 thursday,a tricycle operator 25 year old Daniel Joseph,in Jos was sentenced to one month in prison for stealing a transformer after he pleaded guilty to the crime and he begged for leniency.The Magistrate Mr Tijanni Zololo also gave him an option to a fine of N500,000.Earlier the Police Prosecutor,Sgt Samuel Churkwap told the court that Victor Dung,a member of the Operation Rainbow,arrested Joseph and took him to A Division Police Station on August 27 2015.He said the convict and two others at large conspired and dismantled a 50 MVA transformer belonging to Jos Electricity Distribution Company {JEDC}.He said that Joseph was arrested by the police while conveying the parts of the transformer to an unknown destination.During the investigation,the convict confessed to have committed the offence.
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