Edo North Senator, Adams Oshiomhole has advised President Bola Tinubu’s administration that superior power is needed to tackle the issue of illegal mining in Nigeria.
Oshiomhole urged the Nigerian government to enforce stronger measures in curbing the menace of illegal mining in the country.
In an interview with Arise Television on Tuesday, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior, maintained that very powerful people were behind illegal mining in the country.
According to Oshiomhole: “I would like to see government deploying the same amount of force in protecting our solid minerals and dealing with those who are involved in illegal mining just like illegal bunkering, with the same force of JTF to deal with anyone involved, because the people involved are powerful, only superior power can neutralise them.”
Recall that Oshiomhole recently said some retired generals were behind illegal mining.
But, Oshiomhole lamented that he was misquoted, stressing that he meant “some retired Generals” were involved and not all as was allegedly misconstrued.
He highlighted concerns about the unchecked activities of foreign and local actors involved in illegal mining.
Oshiomhole added: “I think sometimes the media takes statements out of context.
“It is absolutely impossible for anyone, particularly foreigners far away outside the African continent, coming to Nigeria, locating a site, not being geologists, and they go straight to where they can find solid minerals and they start mining it and they take it away.”
yarimo: While chairman as PDP, the same unpatriotic former PDP chairman in Lagos state, that has been collecting money from the ruling party in Lagos state is now claiming saint
Former Lagos State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Captain Tunji Shelle, has strongly criticized the continued membership of Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, in the party while serving in President Tinibu’s All Progressives Congress (APC) government.
Shelle described Wike’s actions as an “anti-party activity,” insisting that his appointment contradicts the PDP’s constitution. He urged the former Rivers State Governor to “honourably leave the PDP and allow members to manage its affairs.”
The ex-Lagos PDP boss’s remarks reflect growing tensions within the opposition party, as Wike’s role in Tinibu’s administration continues to fuel controversy.
The Federal Government says it will pay Nigerians to acquire skills from technical and vocational schools.
According to the Minister of Education Tunji Alausa, the move is part of the government’s resolve to diversify the economy and address the lack of vocational skills in Nigeria.
“You go to the UK, or the US today, a plumber earns more than a doctor. If an electrician in England earns more than a doctor, so what are you talking about here?” the minister quizzed when he was featured on Tuesday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“So, we want to now bring this pool of workers back. So what we’re doing with technical and vocational education is that we’ve laid out a four-step approach here.
“We would pay students to go to those schools. We’ve modeled how much we’re going to pay them when we roll the programme out. We’ll be announcing that. we’ll pay them to go to school. That’s step one.”
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