Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago, has raised security concerns over artisanal miners, stating that some possess firearms and explosives.
During a visit to Sabon-Pegi in Mashegu LGA, where a dynamite explosion killed three people and injured several others, Bago...
In a tragic incident at an illegal mining site within the Gashaka-Gumti National Park, spanning Gashaka LGA in Taraba and Toungo LGA in Adamawa, at least 22 miners are feared dead after a mining pit collapse.
Adamu Jamtare, a local...
It has been more than three weeks since a mining pit collapsed in Galkogo village in Shiroro local government area of Niger state trapping more than 30 miners, yet families and friends of those trapped say they are still...
