A few hours after northern states’ governors and elders called for a ban on mining activities in the region, the Niger State House of Assembly raised an alarm over immigrants’ involvement in illicit mining. The northern leaders met in Kaduna on Monday and urged the federal government to ban the mining of all solid minerals [ ]
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