{"id":727046,"date":"2019-10-19T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/19\/governors-are-behind-illegal-minning-in-nigeria-minister\/"},"modified":"2019-10-19T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T16:56:00","slug":"governors-are-behind-illegal-minning-in-nigeria-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/19\/governors-are-behind-illegal-minning-in-nigeria-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Governors Are Behind Illegal Minning In Nigeria: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_716783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-716783\" style=\"width: 574px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-716783\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5daac00e072b2.jpg\" alt=\"Olamilekan Adegbite\" width=\"574\" height=\"367\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-716783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olamilekan Adegbite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Minister of Mines and Solid Minerals Development, Olamilekan Adegbite has made it known that some Governors are behind the theft of national resources through illegal mining.<\/p>\n<p>Adegbite made this known on Friday. His allegation was backed by Senator Tanko Almakura, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Solid Minerals, Mines, Steel Development and Metallurgy during an interactive session yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0List Of Former Ministers Who Failed To Meet Up With Buhari\u2019s Cut-Off Marks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adegbite further claimed that the Governors behind illegal mining also provide escorts for the illegal miners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they (governors) send the people to go and do this, yes, they need the police. What do you expect a mining officer to do when the state government is backing this illegal mining?\u201d Adegbite asked.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Trust reports that the Nigerian government has gotten the assurance from a Russian firm that will be fixing the Ajaokuta Steel Rolling Complex to diversify the economy.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olamilekan Adegbite The Minister of Mines and Solid Minerals Development, Olamilekan Adegbite has made it known that some Governors are behind the theft of national resources through illegal mining. Adegbite made this known on Friday. His allegation was backed by Senator Tanko Almakura, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Solid Minerals, Mines, Steel Development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":727047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Governors Are Behind Illegal Minning In Nigeria: Minister - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/19\/governors-are-behind-illegal-minning-in-nigeria-minister\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Governors Are Behind Illegal Minning In Nigeria: Minister - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Olamilekan Adegbite The Minister of Mines and Solid Minerals Development, Olamilekan Adegbite has made it known that some Governors are behind the theft of national resources through illegal mining. 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