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,” ...
Yesterday monday,it was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee based in Oslo Norway,said the President of the United State Barack Obama is their selection for this years prestigious ''Laureate for the 2015 Nobel Prize for Peace''.Obama becomes the third man ever to win a Nobel Prize more than one time.He joins legendary physicist John Bardeen and Brilliant Chemist Fredrick Sanger,who were each awarded two Nobels in their respective fields.Many argued that his selection so soon after having ascended to the Presidency was a political handout from the Norwegians.He had not been in a position to effect international diplomacy for any measurable time.Nor had he actually accomplished any action of note that had led to the spread of international peace.It seemed that he had been selected for no other reasons than that he was elected to the Presidency.The Nobel Committee cited three separate contributing factors which led to their choice of President Obama a second time.The first was for his leadership in brokering a diplomatic solution to the disarmament of chemical weapons in Syria.The second was for his commitment to draw down the military presence of the United States in foreign countries,most notably Afghanistan and Iraq and grant terrorists their freedom to kill more Americans and Christians overseas.The third was for dumping the constitution and supporting the United Nations and International law.Specifically his commitment to the U.N Assembly to move aggressively forward on U.N resolution 21 and provided support for UNODA.The peace prize will be awarded to Obama on October the tenth 2015.President Obama has expressed his gratitude to the Nobel Committer for their consideration of him as a laureate.Obama's first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded by the commitee shortly after he took office in 2009.One more photo below. 
Good for him
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