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From Extraction to Empowerment: How Nigeria and Russia Can Forge New Mining Partnership
From Extraction to Empowerment: How Nigeria and Russia Can Forge New Mining Partnership
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Nigeria advances a $400M rare earth project to move beyond raw exports. For decades, its gold, lithium, tin, and columbite have been shipped abroad. Now, a... 11.08.2026, Sputnik Africa
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From Extraction to Empowerment: How Nigeria and Russia Can Forge New Mining Partnership
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Nigeria advances a $400M rare earth project to move beyond raw exports. For decades, its gold, lithium, tin, and columbite have been shipped abroad. Now, a Nigerian extractive policy analyst advocates partnerships with Russia for local value addition, manufacturing, and AfCFTA cooperation.
While situating Nigeria's foreign policy within the broader context of a multipolar world, extractive policy experts emphasized that the country's non-aligned status presents a unique opportunity for strategic partnership.In this episode of the Redrawn Africa podcast, Jide Ojo—a Nigerian extractive policy analyst and governance expert—argues that for the Nigerian extractive sector to transform from a source of raw material exports into a driver of industrial development, a clearly mapped out strategy with nations like Russia might be inevitable.Ojo is optimistic that Nigeria and, by extension, Africa will in the future become a manufacturing hub for its own minerals.
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From Extraction to Empowerment: How Nigeria and Russia Can Forge New Mining Partnership
13:02 11.08.2026 (Updated: 14:16 11.08.2026) Nigeria advances a $400M rare earth project to move beyond raw exports. For decades, its gold, lithium, tin, and columbite have been shipped abroad. Now, a Nigerian extractive policy analyst advocates partnerships with Russia for local value addition, manufacturing, and AfCFTA cooperation.
While situating Nigeria's foreign policy within the broader context of a multipolar world, extractive policy experts emphasized that the country's non-aligned status presents a unique opportunity for strategic partnership.
In this episode of the Redrawn Africa podcast, Jide Ojo—a Nigerian extractive policy analyst and governance expert—argues that for the Nigerian extractive sector to transform from a source of raw material exports into a driver of industrial development, a clearly mapped out strategy with nations like Russia might be inevitable.
Ojo is optimistic that Nigeria and, by extension, Africa will in the future become a manufacturing hub for its own minerals.
"I think a lot of streamlining needs to be done so that Africa can actually trade more and build capacities across the board. We can do peer reviews amongst ourselves. We know countries where these rare earth minerals are deposited, and we can actually form an alliance—a working alliance to share knowledge, to share expertise, and to also bargain for better deals from our trading partners outside of Africa," Ojo alludes.
