Post #104

🇳🇬Nigeria’s (Another) Mine Police 🌍 Nigeria’s Senate has passed a bill to establish a Mines Rangers Service as a specialised force to police mine sites and curb illegal mining. 👑In 2022 nearly 3/4 of total Nigerian gold production went undeclared and that was a pinnacle of law enforcement compared to other years (see the chart). Solution Found? The Rangers Service proposal has drawn numerous objections from the government bodies, who warn of overlapping mandates and extra costs. ➕In fact, Nigeria already has a similar Mines Surveillance Task Force. An actual solution may be expanding the scale of large-scale gold mining - after all, the increase in the declared output in 2022 all resulted from the start of operations at the Segilola gold mine, run by Canadian Thor Explorations Ltd. Devils Below