Tag: Illegal miners
Alake orders Marshals to seal off illegal gold mining site in...
*Photo: Commander of the Mining Marshals, Assistant Commandant of Corps (ACC) John Attah Onoja(centre) and other officials during the enforcement exercise*
Minister of Solid...
FG Nabs 327 Illegal Mining Suspects, As Mining Marshals Recover 98...
*Photo: Dr Dele Alake, Minister of Solid Minerals Development(left) *
With the Mining Marshals marking one year in existence on Friday 21st March 2025, 327...
EFCC Arrests Eight Trucks Conveying Illegally mined Solid Minerals in...
Operatives of the Makurdi Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested eight trucks conveying suspected illegally mined solid...
Married women abandon husbands for illegal miners — Commissioner
Plateau State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Sylvanus Dongtoe, has appealed to citizens to support the government suspension of mining activities in the...
Alake calls for collaboration between solid minerals stakeholders,National Parks to...
*Photo:Minister of Solid Minerals Development,Dr. Dele Alake*
The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake, has called for increased collaboration between stakeholders in the...
Five foreign nationals arrested for illegal mining in Akwa Ibom
Operatives of the Uyo Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, have arrested five suspected illegal Chinese miners at Ndito-Eka-Iba village,...
FG prosecutes illegal mining suspects in Kogi, Ondo
*Photo: Some arrested illegal miners*
As part of ongoing efforts to sanitise the mining sector, the federal government has charged suspected illegal miners arrested in...
Most illegal miners have connections in high places, says CDS
*Photo: A mining site*
Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, said on Monday, July 15, that illegal mining which many have linked to the...
Illegal mining: FG arraigns eight Chinese nationals, one Nigerian
The Federal Government's efforts to combat illegal mining received a significant boost yesterday with the arraignment of several Chinese nationals for illegal mining activities...
There is a link between illegal mining and terrorism in Africa-...
*Photo: President Bola Ahmed Tinubu speaking at the African High-level Meeting on Counter-Terrorism in Abuja on Monday*
President Bola Tinubu has said there is a...
