Nigeria asks foreign companies to stop engaging in illegal mining and banditry

The Federal Government of Nigeria's Ministry of Solid Minerals Development has warned foreign organizations against aiding banditry in order to engage in illegal mining in the country.In a statement he made on Friday, Alaba Balogun, the ministry's director of press and public affairs, issued this warning. According to the Nigerian newspaper Punch NG, the Minister Dr. Oladele Alake issued the warning and delivered it to a delegation from the Nigeria-China Chamber of Mines, led by its National President, Dr. Olugbenga Ajala, during a courtesy visit to the Minister's office at the Ministry's Abuja headquarters. "The government will come down hard on these dishonest foreign operators sponsoring banditry to commit illegal mining," he allegedly stated. let me use this medium to appeal through you to tell those sponsors to desist or face the full wrath of the law.