Nigeria: Chinese Firms, Zamfara Govt Seal $250 Million Mining Deal

Abuja — Barely three months after President Goodluck Jonathan's state visit to Zamfara state to commission the newly constructed solid minerals processing plant, arrangements are in top gear again by the state government to invite him to lay yet another foundation stone for a $250 million three additional minerals processing and smelting factories in the state, in what is said to be the largest single Chinese private investment in Nigeria's mining sector.

This is as a result of President Jonathan's strategic economic plan to develop the solid minerals sector in Northern Nigeria which he made known in a speech he delivered in Gusau, where he pledged to cooperate and partner with any company willing to invest in the sector.

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