Dukia Gold seminar shows how gold regained prime spot as global financial system evolves
By Yunus OlawaleAgainst the backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions, persistent inflationary pressures, shifting global trade alliances and growing concerns over the long-term stability of traditional reserve currencies, Dukia Gold & Precious Metals Refining Company Limited has called on investors to reposition their portfolios by embracing physical gold as a strategic asset capable of preserving wealth in an increasingly uncertain...
Lagos advocates mandatory geological and geotechnical investigations for infrastructural development
*Photo: Participants at a high-level Stakeholders' Engagement organised by the Lagos State Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR)* The Lagos State Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) has reaffirmed its commitment to safer, more resilient, and sustainable infrastructure through the domestication of regulations that will make subsurface geological and geotechnical investigations a mandatory prerequisite for infrastructural development across...
Taraba Governor signs executive orders on mining, others
*Photo: Governor Agbu Kefas* Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas has signed three executive orders regulating mining activities to protect host communities, banning political thuggery, and intensifying the fight against drug abuse across the state. Kefas signed the executive orders on Sunday, 2nd August, 2026,at the Executive Chamber of the TY Danjuma House in Jalingo, describing the measures as critical steps towards...
Technology for Terrain: How Chinese Partnership Can Build Nigeria’s Mining Skills Base,- By Halima Imam
*Photo:Halima Imam* A mineral deposit is only as valuable as the capacity a nation has to work it. Nigeria's solid minerals sector has long suffered less from a shortage of geology and more from a shortage of processing technology, trained engineers, and the equipment needed to move from artisanal extraction to industrial-scale mining. This is the gap where a serious partnership...
Alleged illegal mining: Ebonyi community seeks Mining Marshal’s intervention
The Amalokpa development association ( ADA) of Ivon Local government of Eboniyi State has called on the Mining Marshals to wade into alleged illegal mining activities going on in their community.In a statement signed by the community Chairman, Mr Ajah Friday, the group claims activities of Greenfields Metals, said to be owned by one Henry Ahanato, was sponsoring unrest...
Niger State govt threatens illegal miners with arrest, prosecution
The Niger State Government at the weekend warned individuals, groups and companies engaged in illegal mining activities across the state to halt such operations immediately or face arrest and prosecution. The Commissioner for Mineral Resources, Mohammed Danjuma, who gave the warning, reiterated the government’s resolve to sanitise the mining sector and ensure strict compliance with existing laws and regulations governing...
Nigeria’s solid minerals reforms and the puerile penegrination of a serial blackmailer, by Kehinde Bamigbetan
By Kehinde BamigbetanSteve Kefas' latest fabrication of calumniating trivia, How Nigeria's Mineral Wealth is being handed over to the Chinese, published by 247ureports.com, deserves a rejoinder only because of its Goebbelsian trick: a lie repeatedly circulated may seem true if not exposed.In earlier versions of his propaganda in support of Jupiter, a British-Australian felonious firm whose alleged Nigerian subsidiary,...
Two Chinese bag five-year jail term for illegal mining in Lagos
The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction and sentence of two Chinese Zhang Hong Lin and Gao Pei Hai, before Justice Akintayo Aluko of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, for conspiracy and the illegal mining of solid minerals. The defendants were arraigned on a five-count charge bordering on...
Two Chinese Bag Five Years Jail For Illegal Mining In Lagos
Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of EFCC has secured conviction of two Chinese, Zhang Hong Lin and Gao Pei Hai, before Justice Akintayo Aluko of Federal High Court Ikoyi, Lagos, for conspiracy and illegal mining of solid minerals. The defendants were arraigned on five-count charge bordering on conspiracy and unlawful possession of minerals for export without authority. The Charge was that in...
Nigeria Mining Week promises high-level engagement on critical minerals, industrialisation roadmap
Hot on the heels of Nigeria’s unveiling of a strategic roadmap designed to convert the country’s mineral wealth into investments in clean energy manufacturing and domestic value addition, the organisers of the Nigeria Mining Week conference and expo have revealed this year’s packed and topical programme.Convening at the Abuja Continental Hotel in the Nigerian capital from 13 to 14...
