By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter FATALITIES AT an illegal mining site in the Gashaka-Gumti National Park, spanning Taraba and Adamawa states, have intensified demands for enforcement against unauthorized mining in Nigeria. About 30 miners are presumed dead following the collapse of the pit on November 6 in Buffa, a zone now under sc...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter GOVERNOR DAPO Abiodun has identified indiscriminate mining activities as the primary cause of erosions in Ogun State. Speaking during a visit from the House of Representatives’ Committee on Ecological Fund at his office in Abeokuta, Abiodun urged federal mining agencies to closely monitor miner...
PROTESTERS FACE repression as Illegal mining, known locally as “galamsey,” has wreaked havoc on water bodies, farmlands, and communities in Ghana. The devastating effects of galamsey, including the contamination of major rivers like Densu, Birim, Pra, Ankobra, and Tano, have left citizens without access to clean water. Dangerous ch...
