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Expanded Partnership Targets Illegal Mining, Regulatory Compliance and Investor Confidence The Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals Development has intensified its efforts to sanitise Nigeria’s mining sector through an expanded institutional collaboration with the Mining Marshals, broadening the security outfit’s operational responsibilities beyond the traditional enforcement of illegal mining activities. The renewed partnership is part of the Federal Government’s wider strategy to reposition the solid minerals sector as a transparent, secure and investment-friendly industry capable of contributing significantly to economic diversification and national development. Investigations revealed that the ministry is increasingly deploying the Mining Marshals in strategic operations involving intelligence gathering, compliance monitoring, investigative assignments and fact-finding missions aimed at strengthening regulatory oversight across mining communities nationwide. As part ...

Comrade Otunba Salimon Akanni Oladiti jp The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has thrown its weight behind the Federal Government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) over the recent agreement reached with Chinese firms aimed at reviving the nation’s struggling refineries, particularly the Warri and Port Harcourt facilities. In a press release issued on Thursday, the National Executive President of NUPENG, Salimon Akanni Oladiti, described the agreement as a bold and strategic move capable of transforming Nigeria’s petroleum sector and reducing the nation’s heavy dependence on imported petroleum products. According to him, the development represents a major step toward addressing the long-standing crisis that has plagued Nigeria’s refining industry for decades despite the country’s status as one of Africa’s leading oil-producing nations. He noted that the continued collapse and underperformance of local refineries ha...