{"id":77026,"date":"2025-10-21T17:33:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77026"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:33:42","slug":"senate-passes-bill-to-establish-nigeria-mines-rangers-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/21\/senate-passes-bill-to-establish-nigeria-mines-rangers-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Passes Bill to Establish Nigeria Mines Rangers Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/p>\n<p>The Senate has passed a bill establishing the Nigeria Mines Rangers Service (NMRS), a specialised agency to combat illegal and artisanal mining across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by Senator Mohammed Onawo (SDP-Nasarawa), the bill aims to provide a legal framework for securing mining operations, enforcing safety standards, and promoting sustainable practices in the extractive sector.<\/p>\n<p>The NMRS will be tasked with curbing illegal mining, rescuing trapped miners, responding to emergencies, and investigating mining-related incidents.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which scaled its third reading after review by the Senate Committee on Solid Minerals Development, chaired by Senator Ekong Samson, marks a major step toward formalising the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio praised the initiative, saying it would help protect mining communities and curb the environmental and security challenges linked to illegal mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith The Senate has passed a bill establishing the Nigeria Mines Rangers Service (NMRS), a specialised agency to combat illegal and artisanal mining across the country. Sponsored by Senator Mohammed Onawo (SDP-Nasarawa), the bill aims to provide a legal framework for securing mining operations, enforcing safety standards, and promoting sustainable practices in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":77027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77026","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77028,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77026\/revisions\/77028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}