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A Chinese employee of ASBA Mining Company Group has died after collapsing at a quarry site in Wasa village on the outskirts of Abuja.
Police said the incident was first reported on Monday afternoon by a staff member, Mohammed Abdulkareem, who told officers at Kabusa Division that the victim, 53-year-old Cao Chunri, slumped at the company premises around 2 p.m. on Sunday.
He was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre in Jabi, where doctors later confirmed him dead.
Zagazola Makama revealed that Investigators visited the hospital to document the remains and also inspected the quarry site as part of early checks.
The body has since been placed in the FMC Jabi mortuary for preservation and autopsy.
The State Criminal Investigation Department has opened a probe to determine what led to the worker’s collapse and subsequent death.
Nigeria’s Solid Minerals, mining, and quarrying arena chipped in a hefty N1.39 trillion to the nation’s economic engine in 2024, a figure that’s turning heads in the latest Gross Domestic Product tally.
The National Bureau of Statistics spilled the beans in its freshly minted GDP report, laying out the sector’s haul for all to see.
That N1.39 trillion marks a 21 percent tumble from the N1.76 trillion it pumped in back in 2023, a dip that’s raising eyebrows despite the current crew in charge rolling out a slew of fixes and tweaks to juice up the industry.
Digging into the numbers, the report pegged the sector’s slice of the GDP pie at 6.33 percent in Q4 2024—a step up from the 4.47 percent it logged in the same stretch of 2023—yet the year-long scorecard still took a N370 billion hit compared to the previous lap, a twist that’s got analysts scratching their chins.
It read, “The Mining Quarrying sector contributed 6.33 per cent to the overall GDP in the fourth quarter of 2024, higher than the contributions recorded in 2023 fourth quarter at 4.47 per cent and lower than the previous quarter at 7.72 per cent.
“However, the contribution of the sector in 2024 was 6.87 per cent relative to 6.47 per cent in 2023. In real terms, the Mining and Quarrying sector grew by 2.23 per cent (year-on-year) in the fourth quarter of 2024. Compared to the same quarter of 2023 and the third quarter of 2024, it was lower by 5.81 percentage points and lower by 1.03 percentage points respectively.
