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Nigeria’s mining industry is heading into its biggest annual meeting with unusual momentum. Nigeria Mining Week 2026 opens at the Abuja Continental Hotel on October 12, with a pre-conference day followed by the main conference and exhibition on October 13 and 14. The event arrives at a moment when the sector is being talked about … Read more
The Nigerian Union of Mine Workers (NUMW) has called for higher wages, stronger safety standards and better welfare packages for people who work in the country’s mines, in the same week that gunmen killed two more miners at a site in Plateau State. The union’s statement and the attack were reported together on Monday by … Read more
The head of Nigeria’s specialized Mining Marshals unit has told policymakers that the country needs a firmer, more nationally focused approach to managing its mineral wealth. Assistant Commandant Attah John Onoja, who commands the Mining Marshals of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), called for what he termed “strategic resource nationalism” in a … Read more
Nigeria and the United States have signed a framework agreement meant to bring American investment into Nigeria’s mining sector, which the federal government values at about $700 billion. Minister of Solid Minerals Development Dele Alake and US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau signed and exchanged the document on Wednesday, September 23, at Nigeria’s Mission … Read more
A gas project that has sat on the drawing board for more than 30 years is back on the table. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has opened talks with the Ogun State government on reviving OgunLNG, a liquefied natural gas plant planned for the Ogun Waterside area on the state’s coast, with an … Read more
Nigeria earned ₦998.5 billion from petrol exports in the first half of 2026, a sixfold jump from a year earlier and a sharp turn for a country that spent decades importing most of the fuel it burned. Yet the same trade data shows that the country also bought a large amount of petrol from abroad, … Read more
Two separate calls for scrutiny of Nigeria’s oil sector landed on the same weekend, and they have been widely reported together. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, now the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has asked the Tinubu administration to explain ₦11.2 trillion that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) recorded as … Read more
The Federal Government says Nigeria’s crude oil production has climbed by 80 percent over the past three years to 1.824 million barrels per day, a headline claim that has landed in the middle of a long-running debate about how the country measures its output. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Heineken Lokpobiri made the statement … Read more
Europe’s diesel problem has moved from expensive to precarious. Pump prices across the European Union have set a new record, and in the same week three of the world’s biggest fuel suppliers, the United States, Russia and China, were reported to be restricting or threatening to restrict exports. Brussels convened talks on Friday to work … Read more
Park24, the Tokyo-listed parent of Japan’s Times Car service, has confirmed that a data breach exposed information tied to about 6.6 million accounts, including images of driver’s licenses and other identity documents. The company disclosed the incident in two steps, first on September 25 with a warning that member data may have leaked, then on … Read more