It is mind-blowing to see a country such as Nigeria wallowing in abject poverty and having a comatose industrial sector due to inadequate attention and political will to transform the abundant minerals and metals endowed by God across the country.
The dependence on oil had become worrisome as the economy of the country had not recorded significant diversifications, particularly in the minerals and metals sector. Those in government are not keen in developing and expanding the solid minerals sector as they are yet to realise that in global trade the world has gone beyond oil, whereby the nation's prosperity is measured.
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