President Bola Tinubu has inaugurated what the Federal Government described as West Africa’s largest lithium processing plant in Nasarawa State, with a daily processing capacity of 6,000 metric tonnes and an annual processing capacity of three million metric tonnes.
Tinubu inaugurated the plant in Endo community, Nasarawa Local Government Area, on Thursday.
Our correspondent gathered that the company has provided over 1,000 direct jobs and more than 2,000 indirect jobs since it began operations in the area.
Represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima, Tinubu said solid minerals remain the enduring backbone of every economy because no technology can thrive without them, hence the priority his administration has accorded the sector.
He, however, warned that nations do not become great simply because nature has been generous to them but because they convert their natural resources into economic prosperity through discipline, enterprise, technology, skills and industrial organisation.
