Vice President Kashim Shettima has said that President Bola Tinubu’s administration is determined, to make Nigeria a leading country in Mining in Africa. 

Shettima made the statement on Wednesday at the African Natural Resources And Energy Investment Summit in Abuja.

The summit, which has the ministers of mining from across the African continent in attendance, is aimed at catalysing investment in the natural resources ecosystem. It is also to drive economic growth through the non-oil sector by transforming Africa’s natural resources as sources of wealth

This is as the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSDC) recently graduated a total of 393 special marshals trained as one of the Federal Government’s efforts to curb illegal mining in the country.

The 393 new graduates are the second batch in the series of marshals that the NSCDC promised to train and deploy, to protect mining sites in the country.

The minister of interior had in March this year, inaugurated the first batch of marshals. The first batch was made of 50 specially trained officers.