BUILDING NIGERIA’S MINING INDUSTRY THROUGH DOWNSTREAM OPPORTUNITIES
Key discussion points included:
- How Nigeria can improve investment into the sector through increased beneficiation opportunities
- Developing Nigeria’s downstream/beneficiation mineral policy – status and next steps
- The value-add greater beneficiation can deliver to the Nigerian economy through such initiatives – for both the local and international markets
- Encouraging local transformation and boosting local market and job opportunities through local beneficiation
- The need to develop energy minerals, particularly bitumen, coal and uranium for local use and power generation
- Case studies – what is already: lessons learned and leaders to follow by example
- Supporting a ‘Made in Nigeria for the world’ initiative
Driving investment into Nigeria’s mining sector in a pandemic situation
Key discussion points included:
- The status of the current Nigerian mining sector, including current revenue generation from existing investors
- Unpacking Nigeria’s mineral potential
- Strategic objectives to grow the country’s mining sector and retain its current investment
- How this has evolved to deal with current constraints in a pandemic situation
- Strategies to attract new investors; and
- The Mining Act 2007 – key regulatory points and how it is positioned to drive investment
Assessing Nigerian Mining against Global Best Practices
Key discussion points will include:
- Illegal activities in mining – current status and persistent challenges
- Prevention of illegal mining activities for sustainable development
- Current security challenges and suggestions to eradicate banditry and kidnapping in rural areas within or around mining sites
- Gender equality
- Child labour
- Women in mining
- Human trafficking