Before you let Nairametrics mislead you by framing this as though Nigeria has attracted $700 billion (twice the value of its current GDP) from the United States, here is what this deal means.
Nigeria’s mineral resources are valued at $700 billion, and that wealth is exactly what the Nigerian government has allowed the United States to come in and take.
The U.S is not bringing in $700 billion to your country, it’s rather coming to take. The only money they are going to invest in this is just a few millions to settle interest here and there and acquire machinery. If you are lucky, Nigeria gets to retain up 10% of the total wealth, otherwise, they are taking everything.
Under our Renewed Hope administration, Nigeria remains open to partnerships that deliver meaningful benefits at home and create opportunities for our people.
I welcome the agreement signed in New York by the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake @AlakeDele, and US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau to deepen American investment in Nigeria’s mining sector and help unlock the potential of our mineral resources, estimated at about $700 billion.
From the beginning, we made a deliberate choice to move Nigeria away from simply extracting and exporting raw minerals. We tied new mining licences to local value addition and have worked to attract investment into processing and refining here at home.
That policy is already producing results. New processing plants are being established, billions of dollars in investment commitments have entered the sector, and investor interest in Nigeria’s critical minerals continues to grow.
Our ambition now is to deepen this progress across the entire mining value chain, from exploration and extraction to processing, refining and manufacturing.
At every stage, Nigerians must benefit. Our geologists, engineers and technicians must find work. Our young people must acquire new skills. Local contractors, transporters and suppliers must have opportunities to build businesses. Processing closer to where minerals are found should bring industry, infrastructure and better livelihoods to mining communities.
We are also changing what Nigeria sells to the world. We want to process more here, manufacture more here and export higher-value products.
The agreement with the United States builds on the progress we have already made. We welcome partners who bring capital, technology and expertise and are prepared to create value with us here in Nigeria.
Our mineral wealth must create Nigerian jobs, grow Nigerian businesses and bring greater prosperity to the communities where these resources are found. This is how we turn the reforms we have made into opportunities for every Nigerian.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR
President
@NGRPresident@NigeriaGov
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, who filed arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant over Gaza, has been cleared of all wrongdoing over “sexual misconduct” allegations.
The unanimous conclusion of the panel of judges concluded that the allegations “do not establish any misconduct or breach of duty.”
Reports in August 2025 documented the scale of the intimidation campaign targeting the ICC chief prosecutor: “The campaign has involved threats and warnings directed at Karim Khan by prominent figures, close colleagues and family friends briefing against him, fears for the prosecutor’s safety prompted by a Mossad team in The Hague, and media leaks about sexual assault allegations.”
The case unfolded against the backdrop of Khan’s efforts to pursue investigations into alleged war crimes by Israeli officials in Gaza and other occupied Palestinian territories.
🚨BREAKING: A highly foul smell spread across Gaza City overnight, leaving residents searching their homes and tents for its source.
Social media platforms were flooded with complaints from Palestinians reporting the same unbearable odor across large areas, from Al-Tuffah and Al-Daraj in the east to Beit Lahia in the west.
According to journalist Yousef Fares in Gaza, Israeli military aircraft dropped hundreds of bubbles carrying the foul-smelling substance across these areas, deliberately contaminating the air and spreading the odor among residential areas.
What happened to me is bigger than one artist or one stage. When the billionaire class can decide which voices are allowed on stage and which ones are too dangerous to hear, everyone should be paying attention.
So we're going on tour. All proceeds will benefit organizations supporting the Palestinian people and movement.
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The US-Israel war on Iran has driven up fuel and food costs in Nigeria, forcing some families to cut meals as health workers warn more children face malnutrition.
Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris reports.
SENATOR BUBA'S TERRORISM SPONSORSHIP CASE IS BEING ACTIVELY SWEPT UNDER THE RUG!
SENATOR BUBA'S TERRORISM SPONSORSHIP CASE IS BEING ACTIVELY SWEPT UNDER THE RUG!
SENATOR BUBA'S TERRORISM SPONSORSHIP CASE IS BEING ACTIVELY SWEPT UNDER THE RUG!
SENATOR BUBA'S TERRORISM SPONSORSHIP CASE IS BEING ACTIVELY SWEPT UNDER THE RUG!
This image that is circulating now on social media shows what childhood is like in Palestine. A child returning from school, hiding in fear when he sees an Israeli military car. Palestinian children deserve better than this. We’re tired of living in fear. We’re tired of fearing for our children every time they go back home from school. When will this end?
There’s a declassified U.S. report out there stating, in remarkably clear terms:
“Nigeria must never be allowed to consume its resources. If Nigeria’s people grew too numerous, they might consume too much of their own oil, gas, and mineral resources, which Washington considered essential for its own prosperity.”
I won’t say more than this.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:
Atomic and nuclear bombs are in the hands of the Israeli regime, but the inspectors are requested to come to Iran.
Israel has murdered savagely over 70,000 innocents in Gaza, but Iran, while behind the table of negotiation, was bombed.
Israel has the bombs, has weapons of mass destruction, is not a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, during her shameful life has not allowed a single inspection, but they are rewarded by all the means necessary for them to be able to bomb any capital in the region at will.
Max Blumenthal just said it out loud: Netanyahu sat at the head of the Situation Room table. Trump sat to the side. And said, “Okay, boss.”
Not as a joke.
As the chain of command.
February 3rd. Netanyahu flies in like a head of state. Helicopters. Streets shut down. He walks into the Situation Room and takes the president’s chair.
Mossad’s David Barnea is on the big screen.The order is simple:
Bomb the meeting in Tehran on February 28th.
Kill the Ayatollah and the people around him.
Trump doesn’t argue.
He doesn’t send them out of the room.
He just takes the order.
There was no real plan after that.
No Iranian Delcy Rodríguez waiting in the wings.
No 4-day collapse.
Just get the United States into a war of constant escalation and keep it there.
A country of 9 million.
A prime minister Trump personally dislikes.
A man under indictment in his own country.
And the President of the United States sat in the junior seat and followed him anyway.
That’s the clip.
Not “they coordinated.”
Not “allies talking.”
Netanyahu at the head of the table.
Trump to the side.
“Okay, boss.”