ATIKU PLEDGES SCHOLARSHIP TO VIRAL NIGER TEEN MINER. (PHOTO).

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 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,” ...

EFCC ARRAIGNS ONE FOR EMPLOYMENT SCAM IN SOKOTO. (PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE.


EFCC Arraigns One for Employment Scam in Sokoto

The Sokoto Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  on Wednesday,  May 24, 2023, arraigned one Muhammad Shehu Dambuwa before Justice Abubakar Adamu of the Sokoto State High Court on one-count charge bordering on cheating to the tune of N1,000,000.00 (One Million Naira only).

The charge reads, "That you, Muhammad Shehu Dambuwa sometime in May, 2022 in Sokoto within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, did dishonestly induce one Usman Muhammad Maiturare to deliver to you the sum of N1,000,000.00 (One Million Naira) while misrepresenting that you had employment offers into the "Nigerian Ports Authority" to give to Usman Maiturare, a fact you knew was false and thereby committed an offence of cheating contrary to Section 310(1)(a) of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law 2019 and punishable under Section 311 of the same Act".

The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge when it was read to him. 

In view of his plea, prosecuting counsel,  P. A Attah prayed the court to remand the defendant in a Correctional Centre and fix a date for commencement of trial.

Justice Adamu admitted the Dambuwa to bail in the sum of N5, 000,000 (Five Million Naira) with a surety in like sum.  The surety must deposit a landed property document worth N10 million within the jurisdiction of the court.

He adjourned the matter till June 8, 2023 for commencement of trial.




 

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