Abstract
Poor management of land resources creates environmental problems such as land degradation, soil erosion and pollution, as well as serious social and economic tensions. Mineral extraction, production, refining and distribution have immediate impact on the environments and their host communities. Nigeria being an extractive economy with numerous cases of defiance by the host communities on the mining operating companies, a number of ways for advancing dealings with communities can be drawn to inform broader community dialogue in the extractive economy of Nigeria and countries with similar situations. This paper used information from secondary sources to demonstrate the importance of accommodating host communities as stakeholders. The paper establishes the various roles played by mining stakeholders and how their involvements have changed overtime in terms of scale. Options were drawn for improving the current state of Nigerian mining communities and suggestions were made on avoiding future host community conflict (typically existing in the oil region of the country). The paper recommends that the recognition of communities as stakeholders is crucial in developing Nigeria’s non-oil sector.
Highlights
As Nigeria is rapidly increasing its investment opportunities in resource wealth, greater access to the country is leading to increased resource extraction activities, non-oil mining across the country
The brunt borne by communities through extensive mining is a terrain of discursive and material contestation since community members perceived mining operations as a form of external suppression—a scenario where the government is imagined as having the cake and the communities seeing themselves as being denied of their fair share
Given Nigeria’s reprehensible reputation with oil-producing communities (see, for example, Auty, 1993; Watts, 2004a, 2004b, 2008; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2006; Ogunleye, 2008; Amnesty International, 2009; United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), 2011; Koos & Pierskalla, 2016; Albert et al, 2019), non-oil industries that are investing in the country could draw lessons from the Niger Delta, and other parts of the world, to avoid replicating the debilitating negativity attached to resource production
Summary
As Nigeria is rapidly increasing its investment opportunities in resource wealth, greater access to the country is leading to increased resource extraction activities, non-oil mining across the country. Based on the dynamic nature of communities in the midst of increasing extractive activities highlighted by Maconachie and Hilson (2013), this paper provides a narrative to stimulate new line of discourse and policy direction around the present day mining communities in Nigeria. Given Nigeria’s reprehensible reputation with oil-producing communities (see, for example, Auty, 1993; Watts, 2004a, 2004b, 2008; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2006; Ogunleye, 2008; Amnesty International, 2009; United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), 2011; Koos & Pierskalla, 2016; Albert et al, 2019), non-oil industries that are investing in the country could draw lessons from the Niger Delta, and other parts of the world, to avoid replicating the debilitating negativity attached to resource production
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