The deaths of 37 suspected illegal miners should force Northern leaders to confront a failure much larger than illegal mining: the failure to protect the people and the land from which their wealth is extracted. The earth is patient. It keeps its secrets beneath granite, schist and laterite, beneath the roots of crops and the [...] The post OPINION: Northern Nigeria is digging itself to death appeared first on Latest Nigeria News | Top Stories from Ripples Nigeria .
The deaths of 37 suspected illegal miners should force Northern leaders to confront a failure much larger than illegal mining: the failure to protect the people and the land from which their wealth is extracted. The earth is patient. It keeps its secrets beneath granite, schist and laterite, beneath the roots of crops and the [...] The post OPINION: Northern Nigeria is digging itself to death appeared first on Latest Nigeria News | Top Stories from Ripples Nigeria .This article was originally published by Ripples Nigeria.
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