Minna, Niger State – Tension gripped residents of the Western Bypass area near El-Amin University in Minna early Thursday morning after a violent clash erupted between rival groups of illegal miners operating behind the PDP Secretariat.
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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has uncovered 460 illegal mining sites and arrested 387 suspects in 14 months.
Nasarawa State Government on Sunday arrested the manager of a lithium mining company for operating illegally in Kokona Local Government Area of the state.
The Federal Government has arrested a total of 300 illegal miners across the country in a move to revitalise Nigeria’s mining sector.
The Federal Government has threatened owners of licensed units of land mined by illegal miners that they will lose their titles.
ASHENEWS reports that about 30 miners are still trapped in a mining pit after it collapsed in the Galadiman Kogo community in Shiroro local government area of Niger state.
The Federal Government has shut an illegal mining site at Guabe in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory…
Nasarawa State House of Assembly Committee on Environment has directed the State Ministry of Environment to compile and make available the names of all mining sites in a bid to tackle illegal mining.
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), says it is on the trail of illegal miners in Borno who…
A Ghanaian court had sentenced a Chinese national, En “Aisha” Huang, to 4½ years in prison for running an illegal mining operation, Ghana Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has said.