Sep 09, 2021· Two states in Nigeria – Edo and Ondo – recently announced compulsory COVID-19 vaccinations for adults. Even after a court restrained the Edo State government from going ahead, it insists the order stands. The Federal Government is also considering making COVID-19 vaccination compulsory for civil ...
Jun 16, 2020· How illegal mining is driving local conflicts in Nigeria . . Africa's artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector has development potential. At their peak in 2017 these mines in Niger employed as many as 600 000 people and created …
Jun 09, 2020· Zamfara State, in North West Nigeria, is also well known for illegal gold mining, which prompted the Federal Government to freeze operations there in April 2019.
confusion are created in the process. The result is a waste of resources, financially and materially. This paper examines the statutory regulatory framework for the EIA process, and the inadequacies and misinterpretations of the various statutes, which have often led …
The first way in which proposed mining projects differ is the proposed method of moving or excavating the overburden. What follows are brief descriptions of the most common methods. 1.1.3.1 Open-pit mining Open-pit mining is a type of strip mining in which …
Collaboration between politically connected Nigerians and Chinese corporations in illegal gold mining drives rural banditry and violent local conflicts in some parts of Nigeria. This includes the North West, North Central and to some extent South West regions. An …
Sep 27, 2018· The Nigeria Petroleum Refining Company (NPRC) Exploration for crude oil commenced in Nigeria in 1937 when Shell D'Arcy was granted the sole concessionary rights over the whole territory of the country [Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) []].Crude Oil was first discovered in commercial quantity in Oloibiri in present-day Bayelsa State in 1956 when Shell D'Arcy drilled the first ...
Jul 17, 2020· PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, lamented that Nigeria lost about $3 billion to illegal smuggling of gold between 2012 and 2018. President Buhari also said that improved gold mining ...
Sep 06, 2021· The Lagos State Government through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has issued a 'stop-work' order to 11 illegal dredging sites in the …
May 14, 2020· The group said beyond the recent arrest and planned prosection of the 19 foreigners accused of illegal gold mining, prefrential treatments should be avoided. They said both foreigners and 21 Nigerians involved in the illegal activities in Osun and Zamfara states should be …
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Oct 01, 2020· A person can be resident in Nigeria without being domiciled in it, no matter how long the residence, if there is a lack of intention to make Nigeria a permanent abode. The court has held that a petitioner, who was born in Singapore but had lived in Nigeria since 1979 and had been doing business in Nigeria, was not domiciled in Nigeria but in ...
Sep 06, 2021· Mineral titles are awarded in Nigeria by title applications or through a bidding process. The processes involved in application include submission of an online application which is subject to ...
Sep 06, 2021· In Nigeria, a lot of illegal mining activities are going on and government is losing a lot of revenue from there. How is the situation in Zambia? In recent times, especially in the run up to the elections, we saw an increase in illegal mining activities. I think it was done for political mileage.
Mining & Exploration in Protected Areas in Namibia ... chemical processes may be involved in biosorption, including adsorption, ion exchange, co-ordination and covalent bonding. The main chemical groups in biomass which are able to uptake metals are hydroxyl, thiol,
Sep 13, 2021· In a bid to crack down on illegal mining and its adverse effects on the environment, particularly on the country's waterbodies, the President, in 2021, authorised the Ghana Armed Forces to embark on an operation to remove all persons and logistics whose mining activities occur either in any waterbody or within 100m of major waterbodies ...
Sep 16, 2020· How gold mining can cause lead poisoning Gold is not found alone and usually occurs with a number of other minerals, such as lead, zinc and copper, Silas Dada, professor of geology at the Al-Hikmah University in Ilorin state, Nigeria, told Africa Check. Poisoning can happen at the mining site where rocks are dug up and then broken down to find gold particles.
single, large-scale or 'major' mining operation in the country, while Ghana has more than thirty of such mining operations. The solid minerals and mining sector contributed a paltry 0.5% to the ...
Sep 14, 2021· READ: 1,759 illegal mining sites operate in Nigeria – Minister of Mines and Steel What the minister said. The Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Uche Ogah, while making his presentation said: "It is unfortunate that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) did not believe in us.
Jul 24, 2017· Based on qualitative surveys and focus group discussions with communities in four Afghan provinces, this Peace Brief analyzes how nonstate actor control over small-scale mining sites and illegal extraction contributes to conflict, the local political economy, and the incentive structures that support illegal extraction.
Jun 09, 2021· Companies involved in mining activities are liable to company income tax (20% or 30%), capital gains tax (10%), value added tax (5%) and education tax (2%) among others. The state participates in the oil and gas sector through its national oil company, NNPC, and its various subsidiaries, which represent government interests in the various ...
Jun 01, 2017· Nigeria's abundant solid minerals constitute some of the largest known deposits in recent years under different categories. With the activities in the sector characterized by production and a growing environmental decline often overlooked. This research uses a mix scale approach of descriptive statistics and GIS methodology in analyzing the ecological impacts of mining in Nigeria.
Mining can be divided into three based on the processes involved in the extraction. Open Pit mining is the form where material is excavated from an open pit; it is one of the most common forms of mining for strategic minerals that are available in small deposits (Dontala et al. 2015).
Feb 11, 2021· Research has shown that in 2020 alone, over $400,000,000 (190 billion naira) worth of cryptocurrency was traded by Nigerians; a large amount of this volume was processed by Nigerian exchanges. For ...
Nigeria, formerly a colony, gained independence from Britain in 1960. Since independence, Nigeria has maintained favourable relations with the UK. Nigeria has a high commission in London. United Kingdom has a high commission in Abuja and a deputy high commission in Lagos and liaison offices in Kaduna and Port Harcourt.
Nov 13, 2020· Wildcat mining is causing similar damage in Nigeria's Osun State, which has emerged as the fastest-growing gold centre in the region. Similarly, in Southern Africa gold smuggling is depriving state treasuries of substantial revenue, while criminal gangs and rogue officials control the trade.
Dec 08, 2020· Mining in Africa The African continent is home to an abundance of natural resources including diamonds, cobalt, oil, natural gas, copper, and gold among others. This section will detail the vast array of natural resources and the manner in which they are mined, processed and utilized.
Dec 22, 2019· Nigeria: With Police Support, Illegal Gold Mining Thrives in Osun Communities. In April when the federal government gave the order for stoppage of illegal mining in Zamfara, a …
Feb 22, 2021· The second one is that the licensing processes should be made easy for people to be able to get into the operation and as much as possible government should discourage illegal mining.
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Gold mining in Penhalonga represents all methods of gold extraction from deep underground mining, to small-scale mining with mines only a few metres deep, through large-scale alluvial mining and the most infamous gold panning. The area therefore is affected by the environmental impacts of each of these mining methods.
Mar 17, 2019· Due to illegal mining, the sector's contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has dwindled from about five per cent in the 1960s and 1970s to 0.5 per cent at present. Between 2007 and ...
Oct 19, 2019· Some state governors in Nigeria have been accused of being sponsors of illegal mining of solid mineral resources like zinc, lead, tantalite, columbite, laterite, among others in their states. The ...