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Ex-trader Jidayi Ijudigal builds a network to push his mining projects

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Jidayi Ijudigal (left) with Minister of Mines Henry Dele Alake in Abuja, June 2025.
Jidayi Ijudigal (left) with Minister of Mines Henry Dele Alake in Abuja, June 2025. © Ellen Batzel

The Nigerian businessman is overseeing around 20 mining projects in strategic minerals. His flagship project, a rare earths processing plant in Nassarawa State, showcases his ambition to develop local processing. He benefits from the backing of the mines minister.

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