FG, US plan mining cooperation deal on sidelines of UNGA

The Special Assistant on Media to the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Lara Owoeye-Wise, announced that Nigeria and the United States are planning to deepen cooperation in the mining sector. The Memorandum of Understanding on mining cooperation is expected to be signed at the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The agreement follows a meeting between the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, and the United States Embassy’s Chargé d’Affaires, Keith Heffern, in Abuja. The meeting was a follow-up to a high-level engagement earlier this year in Washington, D.C., where Alake led a delegation of the Nigeria Solid Minerals Company to the White House for discussions with David Copley, Special Assistant to the US President and Senior Director for Global Supply Chain at the National Security Council.

The discussions focused on expanding Nigeria-US cooperation across the critical minerals value chain, including geological exploration, mining, processing, value addition, and refining, while strengthening secure and resilient mineral supply chains critical to the global energy transition.

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