FG discovers gold deposit along Abuja-Nasarawa highway
Olamilekan Adegbite, the Minister of Mines and Steel development has disclosed that Gold deposit have been discovered along Abuja to Nasarawa axis. The Minister revealed this while playing host to the Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule in Abuja.
Adegbite assured that his ministry will develop the resources to ensure there isn’t a repeat of what happened in Zamfara state where bandits took over the mining of gold.
The Minister said;
“Nasarawa State is the home of solid minerals in the country. We had an earlier discussion about recent discovery of precious minerals in the Nasarawa, Abuja axis. As you probably might be aware, we have been talking about this for a while; there is a programme we call NIMEP executed by the ministry where government has put about N15bn into exploration for minerals, one of which is gold.
“We have done this exploration across the country and we have discovered a very nice track of gold deposits especially between Abuja and Nasarawa where we share borders.”
Adegbite who also disclosed that the National Integrated Mineral Exploration Project is being executed by the ministry with an investment of about N15 billion for mineral exploration (one of which is gold), added that the project has generated geoscience data that has attracted foreign investors about the mining potentials across Nigeria.
Governor Abdullahi Sule on his part assured that the state is ready to work with the ministry to end the illegal operations.
The resources that we have and those people we called our didn’t utilize it judiciously
Resources that you are talking about that it is few people that is benefitting from it
The one you have been doing since all these years, what do we benefit from it?
If you like let the bandits also take over place, the government that doesn’t have shame, bandits take over government properties
that is good news….. but hoped they makes good use of it…..
Congratulations..
Goodnews