China’s stranglehold on the global electric automobile market is a major reason for the massacres in the north where lithium, cobalt, manganese, graphite, copper abound. The problem is compounded by the fact that Elon musk and co, with apartheid born and bred mindset are equally collecting the minerals for a pittance, so, no one is an angel here.
In Nigeria, Chinese Mining Drives Conflict, Human Rights Abuses – Africa Defense Forum https://adf-magazine.com/2025/10/in-nigeria-chinese-mining-drives-conflict-human-rights-abuses/
Post script
One problem that has tailed us since 1999 in the dysfunction of the information ministry . It has always been about personal wars amongst politicians.
The common presentation of the phenomenon of Chinese drive for minerals in northern Nigeria and it’s implication for terror is transparent and hard to sell. Chinese giving northerners guns to kill them selves.? When you pay ransom, protection money to BH to ensure smooth operations.. you are financing terror. And the market demand for lithium is attractive enough to ensure steady flow of forex. Which partially explains why dead BHT are found with forex. Over a decade ago Bello called me he was thanking God that he found favour with Alhaji and had built a house in Ikeja, Lagos. Which I knew was in an area he couldn’t afford. I should have explored and warned him Less than a year later , his remains were found in a shallow river. Shot from the back of his head. His employer, a powerful cement magnate denied him.. and saw to it that the case was closed., even though the police had arrested the suspect. He had been used to pay ransom for kidnapped expatriates in NC. Negotiations broke down.. terrorists kept their word., released the hostage and killed the negotiator. It’s time we start taking a bird eye view on the danger surrounding us./BA
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