Legal and Policy Issues in the Development of Nigeria’s Mining Sector: Charting the Way Forward

The development of Nigeria’s mining sector has been slow despite its huge potentials. To reinvigorate the seemingly comatose sector, successive administrations have taken initiatives aimed at addressing the challenges besetting its development with varying degrees of successes. This paper examines the potentials of the mining sector and the challenges that have militated against its rapid development and posits that the Road Map for the Growth and Development of the Nigerian Mining Industry 2016 adopted by the Government appears to have adequately identified the challenges as well as articulated appropriate strategies to address them. The paper therefore calls for the sustenance and improvement on the strategies adopted in the Road Map to ensure outcomes that will stimulate the growth and development of the mining sector.