Promised a clinic, the lithium village got broken taps.

Niger State’s mines inspectors, four staff and one vehicle, supervise every site.

Nigeria bans raw lithium exports, and Chinese firms have put $1.3 billion into processing plants.

A broken dam wall still lets plant runoff seep toward Kaduna’s reservoir, where authorities report no contamination.

How each outlet framed it
Premium Times Nigeria
frames the lithium boom through the Niger Delta oil-curse lesson, centering community pollution and land degradation risks

Sources: Premium Times Nigeria