By Yunus Olawale The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has called for deeper collaboration with Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps Mining Marshals as concerns mount over the growing links between illegal mining, organised crime and...
Solid Minerals Development Minister Dele Alake has warned illegal miners to stop committing suicide by extracting minerals from abandoned pits without licences, and has called on investors to partner with the government to repurpose such sites for profitable projects.Reacting...
MD Abubakar Sadiq Omar leads exercise in Wasa and Takushara, planting more than 20 trees himself as company partners hail a new standard for environmental responsibility in Nigeria's extractive sector
WASA/TAKUSHARA, FCT-ABUJA — Under a wide morning sky in the...
Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has presided over the signing of a $2 million supplementary lithium agreement between the state government and Diamond New Energy, following his recent visit to China.
The ceremony was held at the Nasarawa State...
The Taraba state Anti-Illegal Mining Taskforce on Thursday said it repatriated scores of illegal miners from Taraba to their home states of Sokoto, Gombe, Bauchi Niger and Zamfara states.
The chairman of the Task Force, Jamu Emmanuel, told journalists that...
By Yunus Olawale
Nigeria's mining sector is in mourning. As funeral rites commence for Dr. Emeka Flemin Okengwu, colleagues across the industry are remembering a man whose career was built on a simple but firmly held conviction: that Nigeria's true...
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Agency says five-day monitoring records no structural damage
The Ministry of Solid Minerals Development, through the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency (NGSA) has assured residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) that the earth tremor recorded in parts of Abuja...
At least seven miners have been confirmed killed after a mining pit collapsed at Kassa community in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State.Several miners were also reported injured in the accident which occurred on Wednesday evening...
*Photo: Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Barr. Abdulmalik Mohammed Sarkin-Daji*
The Niger State House of Assembly has passed into law a Bill to provide for the administration of mineral resource-related activities, check insecurity, promote environmental protection and host community...
At least 14 suspected illegal miners have been killed and eight others injured after the walls of an excavation collapsed at a dumping site in South Africa’s North West province, the authorities have said.
The suspected ‘zama zamas’ – a...
