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,” ...

TRAIN CRASH IN EASTERN ETHIOPIA KILLS 14 PEOPLE. (PHOTO).


 Train crash in eastern Ethiopia kills 14 people


At least 14 people were killed and 29 injured in a train crash in eastern Ethiopia, local state media said on Tuesday, AFP reported.


The incident occurred at around 2 am as the passenger train was travelling the 200-kilometre route from Dewele town, near Djibouti's border, to Dire Dawa, according to local officials cited by state media.


"An accident that happened on the Dire Dawa-Dewele line has killed 14 people and caused serious and light injuries on 29 other people," according to a Facebook post by Dire TV, which did not provide further details.


Photos published by the outlet showed several carriages overturned, and others crushed.


Relatively rare accidents


Train accidents are relatively rare in Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous country with some 130 million inhabitants.


In 1985, more than 400 people were killed and 500 injured after a train travelling from Djibouti to Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa fell into a ravine.

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