Dele Alake, minister of solid minerals Development, has said the consent of host communities remains a prerequisite for obtaining mining licences in Nigeria and those miners that fail to abide by such rules risk losing their licences.
Alake disclosed this on Tuesday at the BusinessDay Solid Miner
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