NIGERIAN MINING OUTPUT DOWN 23.6%.

Official hopes to make mining and quarrying a major non-oil plank for the Nigerian economy may not be that easy to realise after all.

Reason? Mining and quarrying output in 2015 dropped by 23.6% to 40bn tonnes from about 52.4bn in 2014.

According to figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), this occurred after three consecutive years of increase from 2011 five year low of about 21.9bn tonnes.

Down 21.4% in 2011, output had recovered strongly by 58.9% to N34.8bn by 2012 then by 30.6% to 45.4bn and finally by 15.3% to 52.4bn tonnes by 2014.

The dive occurred more in coal output which went down by 62.5% to 144880m tonnes from 385893.7m tonnes in 2014.

There was also a major 40% decrease in metal ore mining output to 22639m tonnes from 37741.8m tonnes.

Meanwhile, other mining and quarrying apart from these two remain the dominant activity in the sector and indeed it recorded a far lower 23.3% decrease in output to 39.9bn from 51.9bn in 2014.

In most of the States of Nigeria, this is the dominant official mining and quarrying with states like Gombe, Edo and Kogi chipping some coal output by 2015 just like Ebonyi, Kebbi, Cross River, Nasarawa and Bauchi chipped in metal ore.

In 2014, top ten states by output were Ogun, Kogi, Cross River, FCT Abuja, Benue, Ebonyi, Gombe, Oyo, Edo and Akwa Ibom in that order.

However, strong output growths were recorded in Delta, and Jigawa  in 2015 while major drops occurred in Edo, Ebonyi, Edo, Akwa Ibom and Benue to tinker with the top rank.

Ogun state remained number one with 9.31% output increase, followed by Kogi although with 28.5% drop then FCT Abuja, Cross River, Oyo, Delta, Jigawa and Gombe.

Between these eight territories, 85.5% of mining and quarrying output was recorded in 2015 while in 2014, apparently because of the higher volume, 10 top territories came up with 83.5%...

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