August 15, 2025 Coal production in China fell by 3.8% on the year last month, to the lowest level since April 2024 in the first annual decline for this year, Reuters reported today, citing figures from China’s statistics bureau. The production over the first seven months of the year, however, was higher by 3.8% from last year, […]Read More
Mali’s military junta has started building the West African state’s first-ever gold refinery in partnership with a Russian conglomerate, the Yadran Group. The project would embody Mali’s assertion of its “economic sovereignty”, and ensure the nation benefited from its mineral wealth, military leader Gen Assimi Goïta said. He has strengthened military and economic ties with […]Read More
The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake has officially launched a capacity enhancement programme for the first batch of Nigerian mining professionals at Murdoch University, Australia. The initiative is a key outcome of the Nigeria–Australia collaboration with the support of the Commonwealth Government , aimed at addressing skill gaps in the mining sector […]Read More
As Nigeria marks two years under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I believe it is important to reflect, not from the lens of politics, but from the perspective of business, of industry, and of the economy. I speak not only as the Chairman of BUA Group – one of Africa’s largest conglomerates, but […]Read More
China and Nigeria collaborates to unlocking the potential of Nigeria’s Solid Minerals sector through the establishment of electric vehicle factories in Nigeria. Speaking while paying a courtesy visit to the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake in his office at the weekend, HE Yu Dunhai emphasised that Nigeria is a great country blessed […]Read More
9 May 2025 A looming global copper shortage could stall the world’s transition to clean energy and digital technologies unless smarter trade and investment strategies are adopted, the UN’s trade and development body, UNCTAD, has warned. In its latest Global Trade Update, released this week, UNCTAD describes copper as “the new strategic raw material” at the heart of the […]Read More
The Federal Government (FG) collected N6,957,826,200 mining fees and registered 118 new private mineral buying centres in the first quarter of this year. Giving the details at the second Annual Mining Conference organised by Businessday newspaper in Abuja at the weekend, Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Dele Alake, said the revenues reflect the outcome […]Read More
16th April, 2025 In a bid to solidify the partnership fostered through the Nigeria–South Africa Bi-National Commission—recently inaugurated by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and President Cyril Ramaphosa—the Ministers of Solid Minerals of both nations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlining key areas of cooperation, complete with implementation timelines. During a bilateral meeting at […]Read More
Dangote Industries Ltd. says it would ensure that Nigeria becomes self-sufficient in cement, agriculture, mining and petroleum production. The Regional Sales Director, Southeast, Dangote Cement, Dr Abayomi Shittu stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Sunday at the ongoing 36th Enugu International Trade Fair. “Dangote Industries Ltd. […]Read More
The President, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has said that his company decided to go back and invest in Ogun State because of the Prince Dapo Abiodun administration’s vision and deliberate policies that focus on attracting investors as well as the investor-friendly climate that exists in the state. Dangote, who stated this on Monday during […]Read More
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