Mining Development in Nigeria: A Human Rights Based Approach

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dc.contributor.authorIgbayiloye, Oluwatosin Busayo
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-05T13:50:20Z
dc.date.available2025-05-05T13:50:20Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThe mining sector in Nigeria is one with prospects and potentials of generation of employment, improved national income earnings and economic growth. The nation has mineral resources spread over its various regions with some in commercial quantities. The sector became an area for diversification due to economic recession and to promote investment in the sector, certain reform was undertaken by the administration. In as much as exploration of mineral resources can generate economic increase and benefits for the population and the country, such mining activities pose threat to people and the environment. This is due to weak laws and poor governance in the sector. A sustainable mining industry offers a route for swift growth. Against this backdrop, this paper employs doctrinal analysis and adopt an analytical approach. There are six sections in the paper. In addition to the introduction, it examines the situation of mining in Nigeria; identifies and examines the legal regime and institutions of the country's solid mineral sector, and evaluates the current laws regarding human rights responsibility. It emphasizes the inadequacy of the policies governing the mineral sector concerning human rights protection in the process of development of minerals. The study proposes a right-based approach to developments in the mining industry to be able to address poor regulations and human right and environmental abuses.
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Law and Social Policy
dc.identifier.issn2409-1200
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/123456789/16087
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherBahria University Law School, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan
dc.relation.ispartofseries6(1); 45-61
dc.subjectMining
dc.subjectHuman Rights
dc.subjectCommunities
dc.subjectHuman Rights-Based-Approach
dc.titleMining Development in Nigeria: A Human Rights Based Approach

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