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Mining In Nigeria
The mining of minerals in Nigeria accounts for only 0.3% of its gross domestic product, due to the influence of its vast oil resources. The domestic mining industry is underdeveloped, leading to Nigeria having to import minerals that it could produce domestically, such as salt or iron ore. Rights to ownership of mineral resources is held by the Federal government of Nigeria, which grants titles to organizations to explore, mine, and sell mineral resources. Organized mining began in 1903 when the Mineral Survey of the Northern Protectorates was created by the British colonial government. A year later, the Mineral Survey of the Southern Protectorates was founded. By the 1940s, Nigeria was a major producer of tin, columbite, and coal. The discovery of oil in 1956 hurt the mineral extraction industries, as government and industry both began to focus on this new resource. The Nigerian Civil War in the late 1960s led many expatriate mining experts to leave the country. Mining regulation i ...
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Diesel Fuel
Diesel fuel , also called diesel oil, is any liquid fuel specifically designed for use in a diesel engine, a type of internal combustion engine in which fuel ignition takes place without a spark as a result of compression of the inlet air and then injection of fuel. Therefore, diesel fuel needs good compression ignition characteristics. The most common type of diesel fuel is a specific fractional distillate of petroleum fuel oil, but alternatives that are not derived from petroleum, such as biodiesel, biomass to liquid (BTL) or gas to liquid (GTL) diesel are increasingly being developed and adopted. To distinguish these types, petroleum-derived diesel is sometimes called petrodiesel in some academic circles. In many countries, diesel fuel is standardised. For example, in the European Union, the standard for diesel fuel is EN 590. Diesel fuel has many colloquial names; most commonly, it is simply referred to as ''diesel''. In the United Kingdom, diesel fuel for on-road use is c ...
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Bin Yauri
Bin Yauri is a town in the large North-Western state of Kebbi, Nigeria. It is about 8 km to the east from River Niger which feeds the famous Kainji Reservoir and 270 km south of Sokoto State. Kebbi State {{Kebbi-geo-stub ...
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Gurmana
Gurmana is a Kainji language of Gurmana village in Shiroro LGA, Niger State, Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o .... There are no more than 2,000 to 3,000 speakers in Gurmana village and nearby hamlets. References Shiroro languages Languages of Nigeria {{Kainji-lang-stub ...
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Anka, Nigeria
Anka is a Local Government Area in Zamfara State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Anka at . It has an area of 2,746 km and a population of 142,280 at the 2006 census. The postal code A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, included in a postal a ... of the area is 890. References Local Government Areas in Zamfara State {{Zamfara-geo-stub ...
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Maru, Nigeria
Maru is a Local Government Area in Zamfara State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Maru at   in the far north of the Area. It has an area of 6,654 km and a population of 291,900 at the 2006 census. The postal code A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, included in a postal a ... of the area is 890. Gallery File:Boy in Zamfara State.jpg, A boy in Maru Local Government Area File:Gathering firewood in Nigeria.jpg, Gathering firewood in Kanoma Ward References Local Government Areas in Zamfara State {{Zamfara-geo-stub ...
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Gold
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal in a pure form. Chemically, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element. It is one of the least reactive chemical elements and is solid under standard conditions. Gold often occurs in free elemental ( native state), as nuggets or grains, in rocks, veins, and alluvial deposits. It occurs in a solid solution series with the native element silver (as electrum), naturally alloyed with other metals like copper and palladium, and mineral inclusions such as within pyrite. Less commonly, it occurs in minerals as gold compounds, often with tellurium (gold tellurides). Gold is resistant to most acids, though it does dissolve in aqua regia (a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid), forming a soluble tetrachloroaurate anion. Gold is ...
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Illegal Gold Mining Nigeria2
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ...
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Sarafa Tunji Ishola
Ambassador Sarafadeen Tunji Isola (born 25 November 1960) was appointed as the Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom by President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2021. Early life and education Isola, fondly called "STI" was born in Abeokuta, Ogun State on November 25th, 1960 to the family of Egba High Chieftain, Alhaji Ibrahim Isola Tairu and Alhaja Amudalat Ajiun Isola (nee Ejalonibu). He was a pupil at the Oke-Ona United Primary School, Ilugun, Abeokuta where he recorded academic excellence and was a member of the Drama Society. His secondary education was conducted at Nawair-ud-Deen Grammar School, Obantoko, Abeokuta. Upon completion of his secondary school education, young Isola began work as a sales clerk at Wellcome Nigeria Limited (a pharmaceutical company). In his quest to develop himself further, Isola decided to travel to the United Kingdom for studies in 1978. He commenced training programmes at the Chartered Institute of Marketing, United Kingdom where he obtai ...
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