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,” ...

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE PRESIDENT VILA NOVA WINS SECOND TERM, PRELIMINARY RESULTS SHOW. (PHOTO).


Sao Tome and Principe President Vila Nova wins second term, preliminary results show


He won Sunday's election with more than 55% of the vote, enough to avoid a runoff, the election commission said during a press conference.

Vila Nova came to power in 2021 with the ​backing of the Independent Democratic Action party (ADI), which holds a majority ​of seats in the National Assembly.

But last year Vila Nova dismissed Patrice Trovoada as prime minister, prompting a split with the ADI that left him ​running as an independent on Sunday against three other candidates.

Abreu ​had vowed to focus on creating jobs for youth and stemming what he ‌describes ⁠as an exodus of young people from the country, which is made up of two main islands and has a population of around 240,000.


A former Portuguese colony situated off the western ​coast of Africa, ​Sao Tome and ⁠Principe has had a history of free and peaceful elections since the adoption of multiparty politics ​in 1990.

The country produces cocoa, and was once ​seen as ⁠a potential oil producer, though it has not yielded major finds.

In 2022, the government announced it had thwarted a coup attempt, the ⁠first ​in nearly two decades, involving at ​least one member of a South African apartheid-era militia known as the Buffalo Battalion.

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