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 ...
Their work feeds the stock of Chinese businesses, who dominate Nigeria’s laxly regulated extractive industry and are often blamed for illegal mining and exploitative labour. In what is becoming ...
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 ...
But in a statement to AP, the Chinese embassy in Abuja said Chinese mining companies in Nigeria “operate in line with local laws and regulations.” Philip Jakpor, a Nigerian activist, said his ...