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Mining and Solid Minerals

Niger community wallows in pain, counts losses amid illegal gold mining

TRAGEDY struck the family of Tabitha Manasseh Mohammed on a Friday in 2015 after the pit she was mining...
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Buried alive: The horrific toll of coal mining on Kogi’s underage children

By Theophilus ADEDOKUN ARTISANAL coal mines in Ankpa and Omalla Local Government Areas of Kogi State are sites of dangerous...
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Plateau governor suspends mining activities over insecurity

PLATEAU State Governor Caleb Mutfwang has suspended all mining activities in the state over security concerns. In an executive order...
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Oshiomhole accuses retired generals of sponsoring illegal mining

THE Chairman Senate Committee on Interior, Adams Oshiomhole, has alleged that some retired military generals might be responsible for...
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Gas flaring: Niger Delta communities suffer as oil giants fail to pay penalties [part 1] 

 By Ekemini SIMON ANALYSIS of government data from the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency’s gas flare tracker, in...
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Another collapsed mining site kills 13 in Plateau

A DEADLY mining accident has claimed the lives of 13 miners in  Bassa Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau...
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