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,” ...
At about 9.00am this morning,troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE deployed behind Bakassi Internally Displaced Persons {IDP} camp,intercepted and killed a male suicide bomber who had attempted to sneak through the troops inner parapet towards the IDP camp.The vigilant sentry sighted the bomber and laid in wait until the suicide bomber came close.The sniper instantlt shot and killed the terrorists as he tried to force his way to the western flank of the IDP camp fence.Unfortunately,the Improvised Explosive Device {IED} vest strapped on the bomber failed to detonate.Consequently,a combined team of military and police Explosive Ordinance Device {EOD} have been called to safely detonate the IED.The situation at the camp and the general area is calm.
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