Deaths involving suspected illegal miners detained by the NSCDC in Niger State have triggered investigations by federal authorities, raising urgent questions about detention conditions, use of state power and custodial…
NSCDC operatives have arrested two suspected armed enforcers accused of terrorising licensed miners and illegally extracting solid minerals at a mining site in Yakurr, Cross River State.
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has convicted and sentenced Mahmud Usman, a commander of the proscribed terrorist group, Ansaru, to 15 years imprisonment for engaging in illegal mining…
