Nigeria's Solid Minerals as a source of Economic Development - Tapping a latent resource?

Appropriate management of solid minerals should translate or some say return Nigeria from just a minerals country to a mining country. Any industry that can generate high economic yield, income, technology and massive employment at the same time -even at the risk of price fluctuation and exhaustibility - is source of economic development.

I must disclose my bias immediately, as a lawyer a less than dispassionate appraisal has led me to the conclusion that the law is all important.

Is the Solid Minerals Sector a source of economic development? Is it a latent source? Why? What can be done about the sector?