The economic impact of the COVID -19 pandemic has eroded progress recorded in the mining sector and taken Nigerian miners backwards, according to the Miners Association of Nigeria.
President of MAN, the umbrella body of Nigerian miners, Alhaji Kabir Mohammed, told our correspondent that there were fears that the Federal Government would no longer continue with recent interventions in the sector.
Noting that the country’s mining sector was going through a “very critical period”, Mohammed expressed hopes that the government would still go ahead with the intervention programmes. ”We hope the Federal Government will still sustain the tempo in trying to resuscitate the sector because in the absence of adequate revenue from oil, solid minerals could be a major source of revenue.”
The process for the formalisation of the artisanal miners had commenced with the inauguration of the Presidential Artisanal Gold Mining Development Initiative biometric exercise in Kebbi State on February 22.
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