It is no longer news that the Nigerian Government has granted license to a company to open a gold refinery in the town of Mowe, Ogun State. Mowe is a town known for selling plots of land cheap to people who cannot afford to buy land from Lagos. But with the citing of a gold…… Continue reading With the gold refinery about to go up in Mowe, Ogun State, land prices will soon gain value
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Stopping the smuggling of Nigerian gold
Nigeria loses 100 kilogrammes of gold every day to illegal gold mining. So says Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Kayode Fayemi. According to him, part of the reason for this is that members of the security agencies don’t know how a lot of the solid minerals look like, so they would have difficulty recognizing them.…… Continue reading Stopping the smuggling of Nigerian gold
How To Use Solid Mineral Extraction To Boost Yoruba Or South West Economy
If the Ooni of Ife, one of the premier traditional rulers of the Yorubas had his way, the gold in Ilesha would be exploited in a bid to attract more employment-bringing investment to Yoruba Land. The Ooni is not the only person desirous of seeing an immediate exploitation of solid minerals in Yoruba Land or…… Continue reading How To Use Solid Mineral Extraction To Boost Yoruba Or South West Economy