President Bola Tinubu has called for a fresh continental push to end the exploitation of Africa’s critical mineral resources. Tinubu, represented by Vice-President Kashim Shettima, made the call at the third Africa Minerals Strategy Group (AMSG) High-level Roundtable on Critical Minerals Development in Africa.
Urging African nations to unite and stop the export of raw materials, Tinubu demanded an aggressive alliance among African countries to ensure the continent transitions from a mere supplier of raw minerals to a hub for local processing, manufacturing and value addition
BAT added that African leaders cannot claim to be wealthy while their children wallow in poverty amid mines that enrich the world.
His words, “For generations, Africa has furnished the materials of prosperity elsewhere.
Our duty is to ensure that the future being fashioned from African minerals has room for African ambition.
The worth of a mine must be counted in the lives it improves.
Jobs, industries, infrastructure, technology transfer, African enterprise participation and prosperity retained across generations must measure our progress from resources to wealth.
Fragmentation leaves us exporting raw materials and buying finished goods at a premium.
Cooperation gives our markets scale, our industries integration, our financing reach and our negotiations authority.
Revenue rose from approximately six billion naira in 2023 to over N38 billion in 2024 and between N68.1 billion and N70 billion in 2025.
Major foreign investment commitments and large-scale lithium processing capacity developed and commissioned in Nasarawa State demonstrate the possibilities.
We need reliable partnerships grounded in mutual benefit, shared responsibility, sovereign equality and respect for our priorities.
With fair market access, industrial investment and technology partnerships that build African capabilities.
Africa’s power resides in its people, markets and ingenuity. No outsider will organise our continent or place our industrial interests above their own.
We must integrate our markets, mobilise African capital and negotiate with one voice wherever our interests converge.
Our industrial growth can strengthen global prosperity, the energy transition and secure supply chains.
Minerals confer no automatic prosperity; vision, investment and industry must earn it. Political will must turn mineral promise into enduring African wealth.”
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