The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede on Friday August 15, 2025 handed over a sum of N100,000,000(One Hundred Million Naira) draft recovered by the Commission to representatives of the...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Uyo Zonal Directorate on Wednesday, August 13 2025, arrested five suspected illegal miners involved in the extraction and transportation of ilmenite, locally called ‘black sand’...
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nigeria’s embassy in Bangui, has evacuated 11 stranded Nigerian miners from the Central African Republic, CAR.
The miners were abandoned by their employer in...
Officials of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) shared insights on Nigeria’s local content implementation and lessons for other African nations on Wednesday, Day 2 of the Namibia Oil...
The organising committee of the Gold and Gemstone Conference & Exhibition (GGCE) 2025 has confirmed Segilola Resources Operating Limited as a sponsor of this landmark conference and exhibition, scheduled to take place from November 24 to 28, 2025 in...
A significant legislative proposal, “A Bill for an Act to Establish the Federal Institute of Mining and Geosciences, Gusau, Zamfara State” (HB. 2362), is advancing in the Nigerian House of Representatives.
Sponsored by Hon. Jonathan Gaza Gbefwi and Hon....
Women in Mining in Nigeria (WIMIN) has announced the launch of its National Jewellery Making Competition for 2025. A premier event within the upcoming Gold and Gemstone Conference and Exhibition (GGCE) 2025, WIMIN said the initiative was designed to...
Nigeria’s local content successes in the oil and gas industry was a constant reference point in discussions at the opening day of the 2025 Namibia Oil and Gas Conference, which began on Tuesday at Windhoek, Namibia.
The event is...
By Rebecca Tan
LANTUNG VILLAGE, Indonesia — Hilltop after hilltop in this remote part of Indonesia is being scalped of vegetation. On the horizon, excavators lumber forward, gouging out rocks veined yellow. Nearby, milky chemicals collect in Olympic pool-sized...
By Martha AgasStakeholders in the mining sector say illegal mining will persist in Nigeria as long as poverty exists.
They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that in spite of Federal Government’s measures to combat illegal mining,...
