Nigerian govt begins review of mining laws, after 19 years

The Federal Government of Nigeria has begun the process of reviewing extant laws successful the mining assemblage to modulate and tackle amerciable mining successful the country.

President of the Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society (NMGS), Ms. Rose Ndong, disclosed this connected Friday astatine a property briefing up of the 262nd assembly gathering of the nine successful Uyo, themed: “Optimizing Efficiency, Sustainability and Resilience successful Natural Resources Management and Infrastructure Development.”

She recalled that the existing mining laws were past reviewed successful 2007, noting that the Federal Government and different applicable stakeholders, including NMGS, person begun identifying immoderate gaps successful the existent laws with the purpose of addressing them. She added that the workout would beryllium concluded successful nary distant time.

Explaining the request to rejig the laws pursuing emerging trends successful the mining industry, the president urged authorities governments to comply with the instrumentality erstwhile reviewed, which, according to her, remains wrong the purview of the Federal Government for the payment of all.

“The Ministry of Mines is already moving with stakeholders towards reviewing the existent instrumentality which came into spot successful 2007. So ...