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,” ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC on friday,April 22, 2016 presented its fifth witness in the ongoing trial of a former governor of Adamawa State,Murtala Nyako,his son,Senator Abdul-Aziz Nyako,Abubakar Aliyu and Zulkifikk Abba.Nyako and the others are standing trial before Justice E.Chukwu of the Federal High Court,Abuja in a 37 count charge bordering on criminal conspiracy,stealing,abuse of office and money laundering to the tune of N29 billion preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC.They are alleged to have at various times between 2011 and 2013,used five companies-Blue Opal Nigeria limited,Serore Farms & Extension Limited,Pagoda Fortunes Limited,Towers Assets Management Limited and Crust Energy Limited to commit the fraud..One more photo below. 
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