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 a U.N humanitarian coordinator in Central African Republic Aurelien Agbenonci said yesterday friday that armed men killed eight civilians at a camp for displaced people and wounded one U.N peacekeeper.The attacks took place at Ngakobo,about 40 miles south of the central town of Bambari on thursday.Five of the rebels from the mainly Muslim coalition called the Seleka that attacked the camp were killed and two were wounded.All this attack happened just days after Pope Francis visited the capital.More photos below. 
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