{"id":66519,"date":"2025-05-26T01:13:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T01:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66519"},"modified":"2025-05-26T01:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T01:13:37","slug":"uk-us-eye-nigerias-lithium-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/26\/uk-us-eye-nigerias-lithium-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"UK, US Eye Nigeria\u2019s Lithium Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom and the United States have shown keen interest in Nigeria\u2019s lithium resources, following major reforms in the country\u2019s mining industry.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, revealed this in a feature interview for an upcoming State House documentary celebrating President Bola Tinubu\u2019s two years in office.<\/p>\n<p>Alake said Nigeria\u2019s focus on local processing and value addition has drawn global attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe former British Deputy Prime Minister personally invited me to Downing Street to discuss their interest in Nigerian lithium,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that officials from the US, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE have engaged Nigeria on investment opportunities, especially in critical minerals like lithium.<\/p>\n<p>The Tinubu administration has banned raw mineral exports and tied mining licenses to domestic processing plants.<\/p>\n<p>Two major lithium refineries in Kaduna and Abuja are expected to start operations this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the minister, these policies have boosted investor confidence and positioned Nigeria as a key player in Africa\u2019s push for fair mineral trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The United Kingdom and the United States have shown keen interest in Nigeria\u2019s lithium resources, following major reforms in the country\u2019s mining industry. Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, revealed this in a feature interview for an upcoming State House documentary celebrating President Bola Tinubu\u2019s two years in office. Alake said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66521,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66519\/revisions\/66521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}