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Seventy-nine percent have domestic and industrial water supply components, [3] while 33% have irrigation as a major use to which the stored water is put; 29% are for fisheries, 16% for recreation and 4% are also for hydro-electric power generation (HEP). The three largest hydropower dams are under operation and control the flow of the Niger and ...
Nigeria also has other resources useful for energy and construction, including a poorly understood lignite belt in the south, kaolin, gypsum and feldspar. Coal mining provided much of the country's energy between 1915 and 1960, although the industry has been in a long-running decline, now providing energy only for small-scale kilns and smelters.
Nigeria also has an abundant supply of under-exploited natural resources, including coal, bauxite, tantalite, gold, tin, iron ore, limestone, niobium, lead and zinc. [161] The country's gold production in 2015 was 8 metric tons. [ 162 ]
Together they account for 85% of the continent's oil production and are, in order, from highest to lowest output: Nigeria, Libya, Algeria, Egypt and Angola. Other African oil producing countries are Gabon , the DRC, Cameroon , Tunisia , Equatorial Guinea , the Republic of the Congo , Ivory Coast , and more recently, Ghana.
In 1987 in the village of Bourakebougou in Mali, Africa, a worker attempted to light his cigarette next to a certain water well, and the well unexpectedly caught fire. A local entrepreneur soon became interested in the possible economic value of this "burning well" and determined that the flames were produced by natural hydrogen seeping out of ...
The Tiga Dam is located in southern part of Kano State in the Northwest of Nigeria, constructed in 1971–1974. It is a major reservoir on the Kano River , the main tributary of the Hadejia River . The dam was built during the administration of Governor Audu Bako in an attempt to improve food security through irrigation projects.
The second-largest mineral industry in the world is the mineral industry of Africa, which implies large quantities of resources due to Africa being the second largest continent, with 30.37 million square kilometres of land.With a population of 1.4 billion living there, mineral exploration and production constitute significant parts of their economies for many African countries and remain keys ...
Responsibility of water supply in Nigeria is shared between three (3) levels of government – federal, state and local.The federal government is in charge of water resources management; state governments have the primary responsibility for urban water supply; and local governments together with communities are responsible for rural water supply.