 Women in mining are exploring practical ways of ensuring that gender justice is mainstreamed in the solid mineral sector in Nigeria. This was the main trust of a three-day capacity-building program for artisanal and small-scale miners in equity state organized by the Association. The president and founder of Women in Mining in Nigeria, Janet Adeyemi, who was represented by the National Welfare Regina Ezoua, believes this is time for time to express themselves. Well, the fact is that mining is a male-dominated industry, the facts are clear for everybody to see and the women that are there in the higher strata are very few and the women that are in the lower strata are equally very few. So the essence of our being, our existence as an organization is to ensure the main gender mainstreaming in this sector and to also inform and educate young girls that there is an opportunity for them in the mining sector. The outcome of the program is to teach young women and those engaged on safer mining techniques how to protect themselves and how to go about it in a manner that will provide for sustainable development, yet keep them safe. State coordinator Dr. Yemi Ajisofe says Akiti is richly endowed with mineral resources in commercial quantity and is hopeful that mining activities in the state will be a prominent feature. The hems of this association Women in Mining is that we want to look at the employment and the employment and the advancement of women in mining sectors and we think that we're not at a time pass, we believe that these mining sectors have been dominated by men and it's a men's work that women cannot do it but we can say that all these women are involved day to day as an artist or any other part of them. So by bringing this organization and by bringing this summit or training is for them to know their rights and to know where they can go and to know what they can get from mining with that being shaped or being pushed aside.