₦airaland Forum

ogaemma:
Blame the institution's.
Our country institutions and government have long collapsed.
Go to Nasarawa, that is the head quarter's of illegal mining trade.
Many Chinese company's there don't even pay tax to your government.
Almost all of the Chinese company's there are not in Pension and HMO.
They have the worst welfare package for their staff.
Poor salary.
No safety.
All they do is mine the Lithium and ship to Chinese for processing and then send the finished lithium batteries back to Africa and Nigeria to sell for us.
The Security is involved, some politicians are their backups.
They have police, Army and DSS connections.
All the government knows is to focus and put their eyes in the oil from the Niger Delta.
Nigeria is a wasted country.

joseph1832:
Someone is making 7.6 million Naira within 3 weeks, while someone will work for 30 years and not even have up to that amount for their pension.

I honestly don't know why our system in Nigeria is somehow design to reward fraud and criminal activities, while at the same time, it punish honesty and honest labor.

Elusive001:
I do not blame those engaged in the illegal mining. This does mean that u support any form of illegality. I blame the federal government that knows about these illegal activities, yet looks the other way. The federal government hunts down those engaged in oil bunkering, but protects those engaged in illegal mining of solid minerals.

Injustice, impunity, nepotism, and victimisation will never ever allow this country make any headway.

Elusive001:
I do not blame those engaged in the illegal mining. This does mean that I support any form of illegality. I blame the federal government that knows about these illegal activities, and yet looks the other way. The federal government hunts down those engaged in oil bunkering, but protects those engaged in illegal mining of solid minerals.

Injustice, impunity, nepotism, and victimisation will never ever allow this country make any headway.

tctrills:
This does nothing. Or are you expecting anything to change now you have this information? We have known about illegal mining of gold for years but nothing is done to stop it. Do you think this would be any different?

naptu2:
Are you arguing with a bot? Do you think it can understand you?

Racoon:
Just imagine! The gold reserves in Zamfara State are being mined illegally hence it is one of the hotbed of banditry across Nigeria. Same thing applied to the crude oil theft menace.

Now Lithium have joined the fray. Only God knows how anarchy is reigning underneath as far as the abundant mineral resources of this nation is concerned. This is to inform or reinforced the Nigerian Nation how its sovereignty has long been violated and it has became a failed state

regenerateman:
The crude oil from the Niger Delta is sold and shared by the federating states. Why the mineral resources (gold, lithium, etc) from the North is only used by the Northerners. What an irony!

naptu2:
There is a lesson in this thread, but if you search through Twitter and check the thread, you'll notice that many people have not learnt the lesson.


First Lithium Processing Plant In Nigeria Under Construction In Kaduna.
https://www.nairaland.com/7523789/first-lithium-processing-plant-nigeria


This is the lesson:

There are many sectors in Nigeria that are in the exclusive list in the constitution. This means that they are the exclusive preserve of the Federal Government. For a long time many people assumed that this means that state governments cannot get involved in these sectors, but that is not true.

Bola Tinubu constantly demonstrated this when he was governor. There are many things that people assumed were only reserved for the Federal Government, but his government got involved in those things. Power generation, port construction, airport construction, refinery, etc.

You see, all the state government needs to do is to bring in a private/foreign company to invest in the sector and then they need to get a license from the Federal Government. The Federal Government wants to make money and they want development, so they will go along with the project (although in some rare cases they might sabotage the project, just like the AES Barge power project in Lagos).


Some people are asking why the oil in Rivers is for Nigeria while the lithium in Kaduna is for Kaduna. Well, read this article, the chairman of the Kaduna Internal Revenue Service stated clearly that mining is on the exclusive list and the only way that Kaduna State can take part in mining lithium is to set up a mining company and get a license from the Federal Government. Has the Rivers State Government set up an oil company and applied to get mining licenses from the Federal Government?

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/11/kaduna-govt-set-to-explore-revenue-potential-of-solid-minerals/


This issue keeps coming up every time and the answer is always the same. People asked the same question when it was announced that a gold refinery was being established in Osun and the answer then was exactly the same.

swagifted:
Nigeria na strange country sha....and truly truly if education is expensive try ignorance ....i work in the smart homes sector .... a gate man was once offered an opportunity to work with the company i work with...the guy did less than one month with us and said the work was to hard and quit ..wetin hard....to crimp cat6? to mount CCTV camera? to install ceiling speakers ? to connect speaker to amplifier ? to run wire? ...yet he prefers to be a gateman .... something that with a few .years he will have enough experience to handle his own projects

naptu2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfUwxjhsnB8?si=CvmCsDMjhBxhsQPd



https://www.premiumtimesng.com/investigationspecial-reports/743946-the-digital-black-market-nigerias-illicit-lithium-trade-uncovered.html

Photos

2) A large mining pit in Kakafu, Lade, Patigi LGA Area of Kwara State / PREMIUM TIMES

3) Usman showing our reporter varieties of lithium at Kakafu near Lade in Patigi LGA, Kwara State.

4) Oganyi Franklin/ Facebook

Dashlish:
Afternoon and apologies for coming to your Mention; please is the job still available Sir? Thank You

joseph1832:
Someone is making 7.6 million Naira within 3 weeks, while someone will work for 30 years and not even have up to that amount for their pension.

I honestly don't know why our system in Nigeria is somehow design to reward fraud and criminal activities, while at the same time, it punish honesty and honest labor.