Oyo Governor Seyi Makinde has inaugurated the Nigerian Marble Mining Company Limited, Igbeti, a board saddled with the responsibility of ensuring the state mining sector is revamped.
The Governor revealed this on Friday evening on his official social media pages.
He urged members of the board to “work towards bringing in investment in the mining sector so that it can contribute towards the expansion of the economy of Oyo State.”
In November 2019, The Nation released a-two part investigative series titled: Nigeria’s dilapidated marble mining site to draw government’s attention to the moribund Morlap mining site in Igbeti, a city famous for its mineral endowment.
When operational, Morlap mining and processing company operated under the license of Nigeria Marble Mining Company (NMMC) but has since become abandoned with overgrown bushes around and multi-million machines left dysfunctional.