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Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative (NEITI) has disclosed that Chinese and Indian
companies have been involved in illegal mining of
Nigeria’s solid mineral deposits across the country.
Chairman of the National Stakeholders Working Group
(NSWG) of NEITI, Mr. Ledum Mitee, confirmed at the
presentation of the inaugural audit report on Nigeria’s
solid mineral sector, which was commissioned and
released weekend in Abuja that several illegal artisanal
operations in Nigeria’s solid mineral sector were being
sponsored by Chinese and Indian companies but with
from local authorities.

Mitee noted that base-line information gathered from
scoping studies that were conducted earlier in the
sector, revealed discrepancies in government receipts
and operating companies’ payments within the periods.
He expressed regrets that illegal mining has continued
to thrive in the sector as a result of an apparent lack
of regulation.

He said the illegal miners “engage local artisans and
government authorities to do this at ridiculously low
rates and export to make extreme profits but NEITI
will all the required provide information to enforcement
agencies with which they can use to hunt down such
firms in the sector.”

Mitee stated that the Nigerian government got about
N54.5 billion from 2007 to 2010 as revenue from
payments made by companies in the forms of
royalties, ground rents/annual surface rents, taxation
and levies.

According to him, the domination of the solid mineral
sector by construction companies and cement
manufacturers was unhealthy to a sector that should
attract full time investment with capacity to generate
good number of employment opportunities.

He explained that the activities of artisanal miners
were actually not captured in the audit, considering
their somewhat mode of operation, which proved quite
challenging in garnering whatever payments received
by the government from them.

“It is NEITI’s firm belief that the time for Nigeria to
fully embrace the development of the solid minerals
sector of the extractive industry is now, we
successfully undertook a scoping study in the solid
minerals sector which confirms that all notable
minerals are available in commercial quantity in all
states, local government and communities in Nigeria
starting from gold, bitumen, diamond, salt, coal, iron
ore, limestone, lead and zinc and the country can
benefit in revenue from them,” Mitee said.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/chinese-indian-firms-illegally-mining-nigeria-s-solid-minerals/133873/

Dear Nigerians, as we FOCUS our attention on Oil, the Chinese Miners are looting US dry through illegal mining all over Nigeria.

If it were to be our patriots that is doing it in their country, they will kill them by firing-squad.
But their's are here miliking us.

And my greatest annoyance is that they will even be the director in the mining field, while our brothers will be the jobman "monkey dey work baboon dey chop" at the end of the day, the yellow men will travel back to their various countries with the lion-share.

Infact they should be jailed for illegal mining!

Blame it on Buhari
I love transformation
I hate "change"

IbnSultaan:
Dear Nigerians, as we FOCUS our attention on Oil,
the Chinese Miners are looting US dry through
illegal mining all over Nigeria.

What is Baba One Chance view on Resource Control.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Blame it on Buhari I love transformation I hate "change"

This is part of the conspiracy, why the whites would never want Africa to develop. Blacks we are too dumb to know this.
Go to the north and see illegal mining everywhere under the watchdog of some polithievcians they have giving crumbs and the people are too naïve, uneducated to question these illegalities unlike Niger deltans that do sometimes protest against the activities of this foreign companies.

So many things.... wrong with this country....

BlackTechnology:




What is Baba One Chance view on Resource Control.

Who is Nigeria's president. All u do is blame Everything on Buhaari

Rich4god:
So many things.... wrong with this country....

And you think there isn't someone who gives them the go ahead?
Why not arrest them?

Op, go to Wase local government area of Plateau state, and see what is happening there, you will weep for this Nation, The Emir of Wase has his own share, the STF Commandant is also a share holder, the House of Rep member is also into this illegal mining business in conjunction with the wicked Chinese Company.
Is not like the youth over there don't know what to do , what happen over the weekend, the same scenario can still repeat itself if the youth should react.

MzJackBaueress:
And you think there isn't someone who gives them the go ahead?

Why not arrest them?

the present govt allowed the stealing by failing to arrest the situation

illmatic101:
Op, go to Wase local government area of Plateau state, and see what is happening there, you will weep for this Nation, The Emir of Wase has his own share, the STF Commandant is also a share holder, the House of Rep member is also into this illegal mining business in conjunction with the wicked Chinese Company.
Is not like the youth over there don't know what to do , what happen over the weekend, the same scenario can still repeat itself if the youth should react.

It's a sad situation made worse by our apparent neglect for other sectors of the economy...If only the leadership of this country wakes up to its responsibilities then, oil will just be a plus...

patrickmuf:
It's a sad situation made worse by uur apparent neglect for other sectors of the economy...

na only oil them see. lazy iiiidiots

Nigeria is a country where anything goes.

dddd

If this is true, then something needs to be done urgently to check and curtail this trend! This is where the NSCDC should do their job rather than chasing only pipeline vandals.

And right under GEJ's nose.

How can one blame the foreigners for exploiting us??the blame should definitely go to our government and their corrupt cohorts.

I pray the time ll come when all the youths if Nigeria will lynch all these vultures in our society.

"the condition of my kon3
dey make me crying for my songs".

RIP Baba Fela the great.ur words in songs r always seen in everyday life in our country.

hmmm, Everywhere na corruption

Just like MTN and DSTV. There are many illegalities perpetrated by foreign firms with the shameless connivance of some unpatriotic Nigerians.

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Chai! I pity buhari. Evn a 4th term wil nt b enof 2 do sme changes.

Nigeria no be joke oooo..

A Jewish supplier of mine told me a couple of years ago that the Chinese have been shipping containers of sand out of Nigeria for some time.

Sand alright but gold nugget containing soil taken to china to be processed. For anyone to ship sand containers, the gold content of that sand must be astronomical. Now you wonder why there is all the fighting in Plateau state. The elite know what is in the land they send innocent people to go and die for.

So much work for the incoming government.

With all the distasteful corruptions you hear of everyday in Nigeria,you can only wonder how selfish and unpatriotic Pple can be..

Revenue meant for the nation is going to private pocket on daily basis...

So sad!

OREMUSSANCTUS:
[s] Blame it on Buhari I love transformation I hate "change" [/s]

BRAIN DAMAGE!!!

Good morning Nigeria.

xage:
With all the distasteful corruptions you hear of everyday in Nigeria,you can only wonder how selfish and unpatriotic Pple can be..

Revenue meant for the nation is going to private pocket on daily basis...

So sad!

That's why j always say "The greatest problem Nigeria has is Nigerians, not just politicians...