NINE miners have died after a mining pit at Zurfi Mining Company in Nahuta Village, Gwana District, Alkaleri Local Government…
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AT least seven people, including two miners, have reportedly been killed in separate attacks across parts of Plateau State within…
THE Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abubakar Audi, has assured the public of the…
ON the nights of September 15 and 16, operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps stormed the Wushishi-Lukoto…
THE Federal Government has inaugurated a 10-man independent investigative committee with a mandate to unravel the immediate and remote causes…
WHAT began as an enforcement operation against suspected illegal mining in Minna, Niger State, has turned into a deeply troubling…
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has ordered a full and transparent investigation into the deaths of suspected illegal miners detained by the…
THE Niger State Government has cancelled the APC political rally scheduled to hold this Saturday in Minna, the state capital,…
THE Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, has disclosed that more than 4,000 abandoned mine pits exist across Plateau…
SEVEN miners have been killed after a mining pit collapsed at Kassa community in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of…
SOUTH African police have launched an investigation after 14 suspected illegal miners died when a mine dump site collapsed on…
THREE artisanal miners have died, while two others lost consciousness after inhaling toxic fumes inside a mining pit in Riruwai,…
AT least 74 mine workers have been killed by gunmen in an area south-west of the capital, Juba, with government…
THE Federal Government has ordered the closure of areas covered by Mining Licence 11810 in the Wase Local Government of…
AN unconfirmed number of miners, reportedly up to 37, have died following suspected exposure to toxic gas at a mining…
AT least 12 persons have been killed, three abducted, and five others injured following an attack by armed men on…
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has raised serious concerns over the involvement of some gemstone dealers and miners…
A VIOLENT clash between some illegal miners and suspected bandits at Kuyello Ward in the Birnin Gwari Local Government Area…
SOUTH African police said they have arrested some 1,000 undocumented migrants working in gold mines in the northeast of the…
PEOPLE in a gold-mining area in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been using their bare hands…