{"id":79191,"date":"2025-11-22T21:40:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79191"},"modified":"2025-11-22T21:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:40:47","slug":"tinubu-to-g20-ensure-fair-benefits-for-africas-mineral-rich-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/22\/tinubu-to-g20-ensure-fair-benefits-for-africas-mineral-rich-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu to G20: Ensure Fair Benefits for Africa\u2019s Mineral-Rich Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has called on G20 leaders to adopt a global framework that guarantees fair benefits for communities hosting Africa\u2019s critical minerals, warning that resource-rich regions must not be sidelined in the global push for green and digital transitions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Johannesburg on Saturday through Vice President Kashim Shettima, Tinubu urged that value addition begin at the source to ensure mineral wealth translates into inclusive development.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that transparency and accountability in extraction are moral and economic necessities.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu noted that critical minerals are key to Africa\u2019s industrial growth but said prosperity requires technology transfer, capacity building and investments that promote dignity and inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted Nigeria\u2019s efforts under the Renewed Hope Agenda to equip youth with digital and vocational skills.<\/p>\n<p>On artificial intelligence, Tinubu called for global ethical standards to prevent exclusion and job displacement, insisting that AI should \u201cempower rather than marginalise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He urged stronger partnerships between developed and developing nations to ensure equitable access to emerging technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Linking critical minerals, decent work and AI as pillars of inclusive growth, Tinubu asked the G20 to support Africa\u2019s shift from raw-material exporter to value-adding producer.<\/p>\n<p>He further called for reforms to global financial systems to ease the debt burden on developing countries and strengthen global stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata President Bola Tinubu has called on G20 leaders to adopt a global framework that guarantees fair benefits for communities hosting Africa\u2019s critical minerals, warning that resource-rich regions must not be sidelined in the global push for green and digital transitions. Speaking in Johannesburg on Saturday through Vice President Kashim Shettima, Tinubu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-79191","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\/79191","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=79191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79194,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79191\/revisions\/79194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}