Nigeria, July 20 -- The Federal Government seeks to deploy Nigeria's digital identity infrastructure to track mining operators, strengthen regulation, and curb illegal mining nationwide.

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, disclosed that when he received the Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Abisoye Coker-Odusote, and her management team during a courtesy visit to the ministry in Abuja.

The meeting explored areas for collaboration between the ministry and NIMC to integrate digital identity into the solid minerals sector, improving governance, regulatory compliance, and monitoring of mining operations.

A statement issued on Sunday by the minister's Special Assistant on Media, Lar...