Harness The Potentials Of Mining In The North To Stop Boko Haram

“Of the 95 per cent small and artisan miners in the country, 90 per cent are resident in the North. If you can harness the potentials of these labour force, I think the so called Boko Haram insurgency will come to an end because by and large, the root cause of social vices is mostly economic problems – unemployment. If we can use the potentials of these youths in the North who are well versed in the art of mining, I think the issue of insurgency would be reduced to a minimal level. We have the figures to prove this because when tin mining began in Nigeria in 1903-1904 in Jos, the Northerners were the first miners before people from the south migrated to Jos to begin mining”. Ekosin

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