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Coal Mining Dispute: Gov Yahaya Bello Hails Okobo Community’s Non-Violent Approach

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has commended the residents of Okobo-Enjema in the Ankpa Local Government Area of the state for their nonviolent approach in...

Kogi Assembly Shuts Down Eta-Zuma Mining Firm

Kogi State House of Assembly has directed that a company, ETA Zuma Mining Industry Limited, be shut down immediately over alleged failure to make some requested...

Rep. Halims Demands Strict Compliance of Community Devt Agreement by Dangote, Zuma, Other Coal Miners

By A. M. Nasiru. The member representing Ankpa federal constituency at the House of Representatives, Rep. Abdullahi Ibrahim Halims has moved a motion on the urgent need...

Rabiu Alfa Inaugurates CDA Implementation Committee Between Okobo/Enjema and Eta Zuma Group

By Comrade A. M. Nasiru The member representing Ankpa 2 constituency at the Kogi state house of assembly, Hon Alhaji Alfa Momoh Rabiu today 31st May, 2018 chaired the...

Kogi: Ankpa Communities Reaches Agreement With Zuma 828 Coal Limited

By Comrade A. M. Nasiru. In what perhaps imply the dawn of a new day, the embattled Okobo community and Zuma 828 mining company reached a reasonable compromise after a...

Gov. Bello Inaugurates Coal Stove, Briquettes Company in Kogi

Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi Thursday said the new coal briquettes and stove manufacturing company in the state would churn out products to serve as alternative for...

Eta-zuma Group Completes $12 million Coal Briquettes Production Factory in Ankpa

…to create 500,000 jobs Nigeria’s indigeneous mining company, Eta-Zuma Group, has completed a $12 million coal briquettes production factory in Kogi State....

Okobo, The Kogi Village Where Coal Mining is Killing the People

In Okobo, life revolves around endless machine grunts, a never-settling haze of dust and a seemingly hopeless battle for crops, rights and sanity. The young, old,...