National Telescope national telescope newspaper
By Deborah Odekola |
The Federal Government has approved three mining licences to the Nasarawa State Government.
The state has been approved to extract gold, tin, and lithium.
This was disclosed in a statement by the Special Assistant on Media to the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Segun Tomori on Thursday.
According to the statement, The Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule who appreciated the Minister, Dele Alake during a visit to the Ministry, in Abuja on Thursday, briefed him on the ongoing construction of the gigantic lithium factory.
He said, “I want to show great appreciation to the Honourable Minister because recently, Nasarawa state obtained three licenses. One is an area where there is a possibility of gold deposit, another area where there is lithium deposit, and the third site where there is a tin deposit. I come from the private sector, and I understand how the public sector doesn’t become so efficient in the management of this venture, so we have Public-Private partnership arrangements. Which implies we are going to have partners and we have some level of equity participation that will ensure the state gets maximum benefits”.
