Illegal gold mining has become routine in Nigeria and both compatriots and foreigners are neck-deep in stealing the country’s highly valued mineral, yet Nigeria wallows in foreign debts, TUNDE AJAJA writes
The dark of the night was gradually yielding dominance to the first light of dawn when 75-year-old Yemi Oluwole, a pensioner, took a spot on his veranda.
He sat quietly on a sofa, watching forlornly as the youthful strangers, armed with hand diggers, shovels and buckets hung on their shoulders, stumped along the dusty road that snaked through his frontage…
