Arturo Vidal:
“What happened with Cristiano is a disgrace. A player like Cristiano is among the top four players in the history of football.
Everyone can rank them first, second, or third however they want.
But Cristiano is one of the greatest players in history, and for him to leave the national team in this way is very unfortunate.
Especially because he gave an interview, spoke about what was happening, and explained the options available to him, and then the coach comes out and says that…
I think this puts the coach in a very bad position. He is making a huge mistake in the way he is handling the situation.
You have to take care of Cristiano and protect him.
He is a player who has given everything to Portugal and has taken them to the level of one of the best national teams in the world.
A player of this stature cannot leave the national team this way.
Cristiano has every right to do whatever he wants, because what he has given to football and to the Portuguese national team is that he has taken them to another level.
All my support for Cristiano. He is exceptional at what he does. There are coaches who simply don’t know how to respect these things.
No one is saying Cristiano should have played every minute for the Portuguese national team, but you cannot treat him like an ordinary player. Because no matter what happens, he will never be an ordinary player.
It’s about the way he is treated, gentlemen. The way you handle things always matters.
And it seems that Jorge Jesus did not know how to take care of and manage the greatest Portuguese legend of all time.”
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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
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BREAKING:
* Lionel Messi quits international football having scored 125 goals for Argentina, the second-highest number in football history.
* @Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 146 goals for Portugal, the highest in football history.
This settles the 🐐debate.