ACF demands full disclosure of Nigeria-US critical minerals agreement

The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has expressed interest astatine what it views arsenic "the refusal oregon reluctance of the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) to disclose details of the statement wide reported successful the nationalist and planetary press, to person been signed with the United States connected 23rd September 2026, successful New York, relating to the exploitation of captious and/or strategical minerals."

The interest of the ACF is that the reported woody remains opaque, peculiarly successful the lack of capable publically disposable accusation regarding the terms, scope, fiscal commitments, and implementation frameworks, saying that it recognises the imaginable benefits of liable planetary concern and method cooperation.

Its National Publicity Secretary Prof Muhammad-Buba, successful a connection connected Wednesday, said that it considers transparency, accountability, nationalist sovereignty, economical justness and the extortion of Nigeria's nationalist interests arsenic indispensable successful immoderate statement susceptible of having important and lasting consequences for the state and the communities successful which they occur.

According to ACF, afloat nationalist disclosure, and scrutiny therefrom, are truthful precise captious and should not beryllium treated cavalierly.

The Forum is besides mindful that Northern Nigeria possesses important deposits of gold, lithium, lead-zinc and different comme...