The second edition of the African Gems and Jewellery Exhibition and Seminar (AGJES) held in Abuja recently, attracting participants from across Africa. ABAH ADAH writes.
It is a dependable fact today that Nigeria is one of nature’s most favoured countries in terms of availability of solid minerals around the world today.
The country’s land space is reputed to have deposits of assorted solid minerals in the soil, such as coal and tin. And while a majority of them are left unidentified, let alone be tapped to date, a few have been identified and perhaps a bit tapped before the total neglect the sector suffered for over three decades as attention was shifted to oil as the only economic commodity Nigeria depended on.
In other words, the reality is that Nigeria has not been able to take full advantage of the huge minerals wealth to become one of the top economies in the world.
Apart from the 7 identified strategic minerals, namely coal, barite, lead, iron-ore,…
