Senate probes death of 30 miners in Niger State rockslide

Senate has mandated its Committee on Solid Minerals to investigate the cause of rockslide that buried alive 30 informal miners in a gold mining site in Farin Doki community, Shiroro Local Government of Niger state.

This followed adoption of a motion on “urgent need to address incident of the rockslide that buried alive over 30 informal miners in a gold mining site in Farin Doki Community, Shiroro Local Government, Niger State” at plenary on Thursday in Abuja on