{"id":59830,"date":"2024-05-27T06:25:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T06:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=59830"},"modified":"2024-05-27T06:25:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T06:25:53","slug":"nigeria-is-emerging-as-a-critical-mineral-hub-the-government-is-cracking-down-on-illegal-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/27\/nigeria-is-emerging-as-a-critical-mineral-hub-the-government-is-cracking-down-on-illegal-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria is emerging as a critical mineral hub. The government is cracking down on illegal operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59831\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Miners-Nigeria-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s government is cracking down on illegal mining, making dozens of arrests of unlicensed miners since April for allegedly stealing the country\u2019s lithium, a critical mineral used in batteries for electric vehicles, smart phones and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/us\/nigeria-is-emerging-as-a-critical-mineral-hub-the-government-is-cracking-down-on-illegal-operations\/ar-BB1n6noV?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=cfa53244f58b436f8d62fea59aeb3545&amp;ei=117\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Nigeria&#8217;s government is cracking down on illegal mining, making dozens of arrests of unlicensed miners since April for allegedly stealing the country\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59832,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59830\/revisions\/59832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}