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May 26, 2021 The Nigerian Government is losing huge revenue from the solid mineral sector in the country, due to the lack of standardized guideline procedure and requirements for exporters despite the need to ...
May 30, 2021 “In furtherance of this objective, the Commission is actively promoting the development of the commodities market especially in areas of Nigeria’s comparative advantage such as solid minerals and agriculture. Yuguda stated that the Commission is currently implementing the 10 year Nigerian capital market master plan which was launched in 2015.
Mineral resource is definable (US Geological Survey Circular 831, 1980) as “a concentration of naturally occurring solid, liquid or gaseous material in or on the Earth’s crust in such form and amount that economic extraction of a commodity from the concentration is currently
The recently created Ministry of Solid Mineral Development has been a major stimulus to the Nligerian mining industry. It offers a viable alternative to petroleum for foreign exchange earning. Globally, the mining industry has been a close rival to the petroleum industry, although Nigeria earns currently a …
Jun 29, 2015 Nigeria as a nation is passing through economic hardship as a result of fall in oil prices. The low activity in the solid mineral sector is not yielding the desired financial benefit as there are ...
Feb 17, 2020 Solid mineral sector contribution to Nigeria’s GDP. Yes, if we do little research, we would realise things have changed a lot. As at 2005 when the data started to be recorded, we were ...
Aug 09, 2021 2023: It’s time to allow youths rule Nigeria – Yahaya Bello tells Tinubu. ... Insecurity caused by failure to utilise solid mineral sector – Masari. Published. on. August 9, 2021. By.
Feb 10, 2020 In a previous article posted here, we delved into the lucrative world of international trade and talked about 8 highly profitable agricultural products to export from Nigeria to international buyers. But the global community doesn’t just buy only agricultural products to feed its population, they also buy solid minerals used in building industries, machines, and technological advancements.
Aug 13, 2018 Historical Background Of The Nigeria Solid Mineral Sector by Masogemstones ( m ): 8:42am On Aug 13, 2018. Organised mining activities in Nigeria started with the commissioning in 1903 and 1904 of the mineral surveys of the Southern and Northern Protectorates by …
Dec 25, 2012 The maiden report, which covers 2007 to 2010, shows that over 70 per cent of mining title holders in Nigeria’s solid mineral sector are inactive companies, causing Nigeria’s government huge ...
The solid minerals sector alone has the potential to generate employment and wealth. for over five million people (Transformation Agenda, 2014), currently, the solid mineral. sector employs about ...
Sep 04, 2020 Nigeria is endowed with several types s of mineral resources. Every investor or company willing to engage in the Nigerian mining sector requires a government approval or license to proceed. Mining license in Nigeria is usually relevant for companies seeking to engage in the mining sector…
Quarter on quarter growth of the sector was recorded at 5.78%. GDP. In nominal terms, the Public Administration sector grew by 4.47% in Q4 2020, 1.79% points higher than the corresponding quarter of 2019 but –1.82% points lower relative to Q3 2020. Quarter-on-Quarter, the sector grew by 15.08%. GDP
Jun 20, 2021 “Nigeria’s GDP in 2019 was ₦144.210trillion with contributions from the solid minerals sector totaling ₦368.99billion, representing 0.26% of the total amount”. This shows a steady growth in the sector’s contribution to the economy in the past five years, from a contribution of 0.12% in 2015 to 0.26% in 2019.
May 27, 2017 In the Federal Government’s recently launched Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, the minerals and metals sector was duly recognised as one of those to drive Nigeria’s recovery. The document projected to grow the sector’s contribution to the GDP from N103bn in 2015 to N141bn in 2020, at an average annual growth rate of 8.54 percent.
Appropriate management of solid minerals should translate or some say return Nigeria from just a minerals country to a mining country. Any industry that can generate high economic yield, income, technology and massive employment at the same time -even at the risk of price fluctuation and exhaustibility - is source of economic development.
Feb 10, 2018 Nigeria is rich in solid minerals. This have attracted many foreign nationals. These solid minerals drive the economic sector of Nigeria. In this article, I will share with you the list of solid minerals in Nigeria and their states of location. I will also discuss the major solid minerals.
Realising these, the Federal Government in its Economic Recovery and Growth Plan 2017 to 2020, declared that the solid minerals sector is one of Nigeria’s most promising growth sectors.
Federal government said there is need to urgently improve procedures, documentation and regulations in the Nigerian solid mineral sector. Minister of finance, budget and national planning, Mrs ...
Jul 16, 2020 Investigation of Solid Mineral Deposit in Gubio, Nigerian Sector of Chad Basin Using Aeromagnetic and Aerogravity Forward and Inverse Modelling ... The issue of diversification of economy in Nigeria has become a necessity, following the drop in the price of crude oil, which is the major source of revenue, as a result of closure of many ...
Jun 21, 2021 Nigeria earned N79.96 billion from the solid minerals sector in 2019, according to its 2019 audit report on the sector, released on Sunday, in Abuja.. The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) in its report said that the figure, which represented accruals to the Federation and other subnational entities, showed a 15 percent increase when compared to the N69.47 billion ...
Oct 01, 2019 The glory days are back for the mining sector in Nigeria. Courtesy: www.123rf.com. For a country with vast solid mineral resources, it is hard to believe that mining in Nigeria only contributes 0.5% to its GDP. In 2016, the federal government put forward an ambitious roadmap to …
Sep 14, 2020 The solid minerals sector in Nigeria also provides an opportunity for U.S. companies to export to the Nigerian market. The Ministry of Solid Minerals Development (MMSD) is working actively to attract local and international investment into Nigeria’s mining sector.
Jul 14, 2021 Dangote Cement Plc and Dangote Industries Limited are the highest revenue contributors to the country’s Solid Minerals sector in 2019, according to Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI). The Spokesman for Dangote Group, Mr Francis Awowole-Browne, said in a statement that NEITI revealed in its 2019 Audit Report that the ...
Oct 27, 2019 It noted that the development also affected efforts at quantifying the contribution of the solid minerals sector to Nigeria’s GDP, which presently stands at current basic price of ₦113.7 trillion.
and metals, just a few have focused on solid mineral resources. This paper empirically tries to expose the potentiality in solid mineral resources as viable alternative to the petroleum sector, which production in Nigeria is unpredictable and the crisis in the region that produce the oil make unreliable as revenue-earning source for the country.
Mar 02, 2016 The Nigerian Extractive Industry and Transparency Initiative, NEITI report suggests that there are over 30 different kinds of solid minerals and precious metals (Sapphire, Aquamarine, Topaz etc ...
Oct 15, 2020 Minerals can either be extracted from the surface of earth or deep in earth. A mineral is a naturally occurring substance that is solid and inorganic, representable by a chemical formula, usually a biogenic and has an ordered atomic structure. The study addressed the contributions of Solid mineral sector to Nigeria’s economic growth from 1985 ...
improve revenue generation from the sector for better economic growth and development. The Nigerian mineral sector will be able to contribute at least 10% to the country’sannual GDP. Abstract Brief Outline Geology of Nigeria and Minerals Iron ore Widespread occurrence of BIFs in the schist belts with grades seldom exceed 40% Fe.
Sep 19, 2018 Experts list challenges facing solid minerals sector. By Charles Maduabueke. ... He said geological and geophysical data on solid minerals in Nigeria were grossly inadequate, adding that the ...
The Federal Government collected a further sum of N 26,120,477,004.00 as tax revenue from the solid minerals sector in same 2010. The total of these revenues generated in 2011 do not portray the probable revenue than can be generated from the quantum of solid mineral reserves available in Nigeria.
Katsina governor: Neglect of solid mineral sector fuelling insecurity. The Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari, has cited Nigeria’s failure to fully exploit its abundant solid mineral ...
this is the solid minerals sector. The solid minerals sector had been targeted by the previous administration to contribute 5% to GDP by 2015 and 10% to GDP by 2020. Current contribution of the solid minerals sector to GDP averages about 0.46% To reverse this trend and initiate appreciable growth in the sector…
real exchange rate, real gdp, solid mineral output, and gross capital formation, a preliminary graphical study of the trend in solid minerals contribution to Nigeria’s real gdp shows that over time, the linkage of solid minerals to the real sector steadily declined with a couple of structural breaks.