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
BREAKING: Former APC Gubernatorial Candidate in Kano State Dr Yusuf Nasiru Gawuna has officially resigned from the APC ahead of his imminent defection to the ADC coalition under the leadership of Sr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
Abin takaici ne yadda matsalar tsaro ke ci gaba da lalacewa a Arewa, lamarin da ke kara sa fargaba, rasa rayuka da durkushewar tattalin arzikin al’umma. Wannan ba wai matsalar gwamnati ce kadai ba, lamari ne da ya shafi kowa, shugabanni, jami’an tsaro da masu ruwa da tsaki...
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PROF. USMAN YUSUF’S STATEMENT FROM KUJE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY…
“Greetings from Kuje Prison. I sincerely appreciate everyone for your support and concern.
I am in good health in the VIP section, where we eat, worship peacefully, and stay away from the noise of the larger
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Frame 1: Prof Usman Yusuf was accused of N90 million and was sent to prison.
Frame2: Bello Matawalle was accused of diverting N70 billion but he is now in his office in Abuja, serving as State Defense Minister with heavy bodyguards guarding him.
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Akpabio is contributing to the perception of this administration as unsympathetic among the masses with his comments. I find it hard to believe that a Senate President would be making such a statement while the president is working to calm tensions and address the grievances.
When a Senator is suspended or reprimanded for his utterances or conduct by the Senate President,if “any Senator talk anyhow de support am,him too go follow am”.
Thats why una opposition Senators no fit talk pim.
Na so the place be.