 The Niger Mining and Geosciences Society has called for due compliance to mining guidelines with a view to protecting the sector from the activities of individuals who may want to compromise standards. President of the Society, Alabo Charles, who briefed journalists ahead of the 58th National Conference of Society in Ilori, Kwarasi Capital, decried the inability of the relevant authorities to fully explore the huge economic potentials in the nation's mining sector. As a society, all we can do is to advise government. We cannot go take the place of government to go and start arresting Chinese who are running over the place, but I agree there is need for sanity in our mining sector. If indeed Nigeria must be a mining destination for people, there are challenges. God has blessed this country, but there are challenges in Nigeria. Our laws have one thing else. It is very difficult for you to say a state government, a local government, where the government doves in government will tell you that, oh, you can go and partner with the government and have interest in mining. That's the different part of them. But there must be reason for a thing, so that we can organize this sector. Because this sector can save this country. Every state of this federation, you have various minerals. I don't see why the governments of various states are not involved in active mining. Alabo noted that illegal mining activities could only be checked if local communities partner with relevant agencies. You can also have the natives who own this soil, but by virtue of our constitution, whatever thing you have on your soil that is inside the soil belongs to the exclusive leaves where only the federal government has power to exploit. Now, it is impossible for you to put a goat and a yam in the same room and you ask the goat not to eat the yam. So even the natives, the natives who own the land, they also bring people to scavenge the ground and say that governments should put it back together. Take the best practice internationally. These things have occurred in other countries. We don't need to redefine the wheel. How are they going up? Our own culture may be different, but our culture cannot stand in isolation, so that we can put our hearts in order. This country is a great country. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.