No fewer than 150 youths and women involved in mining within the Osun West Senatorial District have been awarded a collective grant of N7.5 million following their completion of specialised training in modern mining techniques. The training programme, facilitated by the Senate Deputy Minority Leader, Dr Lere Oyewumi, was held in Ikire, Osun State, and conducted by the Mining Cadastre …

An attempt by some notorious herdsmen to rape a six-month-pregnant woman was frustrated by a group of local miners in Jol community, Riyom Local Government Area, Plateau State yesterday. It was learnt that the pregnant woman (name withheld) was on her way home from Rotchu (Rafin-Acha) to Tarai Hamlet at about 3:45 pm when some hoodlums suspected to be herdsmen …

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake has said that miners and operators in the sector owed the Federal Government more than N2 trillion. This is as the minister stressed that the current administration of President Bola Tinubu is determined to halt the activities of illegal miners across the country. Alake described the activities of illegal miners as …

Miners and other stakeholders in the solid minerals sector have joined President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the minister of solid minerals development, Dr Dele Alake, to achieve the administration’s drive to attract $10 trillion investment to the industry. They lauded the president and minister for transforming the sector within eight months in office and pledged to support the government’s multi-trillion …