THE United States Department of Labour yesterday announced the award of a $4 million cooperative agreement to Pact, an ...

Lithium mining is dangerous and exhausting work. Miners descend several feet into dark pits then wield axes to hack through ...

Growing demand for the lithium used in batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage has created a new frontier for ...

The growing demand for lithium has created a new frontier for mining in mineral-rich Nigeria. But it has come with a steep ...

Tomori also said social safety programs such as school feeding initiatives are being revamped to keep children in school and combat child labor. He also cited a program to add mining marshals ...

Nigeria has laws requiring basic education and prohibiting child labor, but enforcement is a challenge with many illegal mines in hard-to-reach areas. Corruption among regulatory and law ...