It’s only on APC supporters pages and Tony Elumelu mouth that Nigeria is doing fine.
I visited Nigeria in May and the level of poverty you see once your plane lands is WILD…. Everybody is begging!!! I mean EVERYBODY!!!
And this is Lagos o!!
I then wonder what’s happening in other states where wealth concentration isn’t as much like other states.
You board hailing services and they’re begging for tips.
You stop in traffic on the terrible roads and your car is swarmed with people begging!
The suffering is just too much.
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.
I appeal specifically for his safety. His courage must not expose him or his family to intimidation or retaliation. I am prepared to support his education and ensure that the brilliance we have witnessed is not buried by poverty. Any effort to reach him must be handled responsibly through his family and appropriate child-protection channels.
But this video raises a question that should trouble the conscience of every Nigerian: how can a community sitting upon gold remain so poor that it cannot educate its children? How can its wealth leave the soil while hunger and deprivation remain in its homes?
This is an indictment of the Tinubu administration. The Federal Government controls Nigeria’s mineral resources, yet the communities producing that wealth remain without schools, opportunities or protection.
The contrast is revealing. President Buhari established PAGMI to register, train and integrate artisanal miners into the formal economy, with Niger State included among its intervention states. Tinubu inherited that framework but has met these vulnerable citizens with raids, detention and the label “illegal miners.”
Buhari saw people to formalise. Tinubu sees poor people to criminalise.
This boy is evidence against the Tinubu government. His intelligence exposes the opportunities it has failed to provide. His poverty exposes the injustice of Nigeria’s mining economy. His presence at that site exposes an administration that has left brilliant children without a ladder out of deprivation.
The government must explain what became of PAGMI in Niger State and how 37 Nigerians died in the custody of a federal agency. Calling them “illegal miners” cannot erase their humanity or excuse their deaths.
As a father, a grandfather and a Nigerian, I refuse to look away. I will continue to speak for these children because their lives matter, their dreams matter and their future belongs to Nigeria.
The gold beneath their community should build classrooms and livelihoods, not graves. —AA
🚨🚨Mikel Konsa on the sudden aggression in his playing style:
🗣️ “On my first day training with Arsenal, I saw terrible things. Gabriel was flying into Gyokeres and Havertz like he owed him money. Hincapié was throwing himself into tackles like it was a cup final. Ben White was leaving the ground just to win a ball in training. Calafiori was sliding in from places I didn’t even know were legal. Bodies were hitting the floor, boots were flying and nobody was apologising.
I looked around and realised Arteta had assembled MAD MEN. These weren’t defenders. These were mad men with football boots. If I wanted to start for Arsenal, I knew I had to become a mad man too. So I locked in.”
I send my parents 200,000 naira monthly. My elder brother found out and started adding 50,000 naira, making it 250,000 naira total. I send it all directly to my father.
Last month I exceeded my budget and could not send my part. I informed my father and forwarded him the 50,000 naira my brother sent.
My mother called. She had already budgeted her share from what he gives her for something important. I asked how much my father usually gives her so I could send that directly.
She said 150,000 to 200,000 naira.
I paused. I actually thought it wouldn't be more than 100,000 naira.
I send my father 250,000 naira and he gives my mother almost everything. My father is not a rich man. He really makes nothing elsewhere.
And the 50,000 naira I sent him last month when I was short? He had already forwarded it to her.
Well, I sent her an extra 60,000 naira and told her to make do with that.
The most interesting part is that my mother has no idea the amount I send to my father monthly. She only knows that I send them money.
My father is one of the most selfless people I know. ❤️
Above all, love God.
Gianni Infantino🗣️: “FIFA is officially the provider of happiness”
Trump🗣️: “Unless his team loses (Argentina)
Trump calling out Infantino for being corrupt right to his face on live camera is wild😭😭