{"id":207319,"date":"2025-09-16T11:22:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-gov-alia-cautions-traditional-rulers-against-issuing-mining-permits-without-govts-approval\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:22:57","slug":"nigeria-gov-alia-cautions-traditional-rulers-against-issuing-mining-permits-without-govts-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-gov-alia-cautions-traditional-rulers-against-issuing-mining-permits-without-govts-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Gov Alia Cautions Traditional Rulers Against Issuing Mining Permits Without Govt&#8217;s Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State has warned traditional rulers in the state to desist from issuing mining permits in their domains without approval from government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">He warned that his administration would not spare any offender caught in the act as he would be made to face prosecution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Governor Alia issued the warning while speaking at the thanksgiving organized in honour of his appointees from Kwande Local Government Area, LGA, which is one of the mining hubs in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509160193.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State has warned traditional rulers in the state to desist from issuing mining permits in their domains without approval from government. He warned that his administration would not spare any offender caught in the act as he would be made to face prosecution. Governor Alia issued the warning while speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,52360,8113,8316,7547,9837,17152,6477,257,4687,393,13239,18161,254,9464],"class_list":["post-207319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alia","tag-approval","tag-cautions","tag-gov","tag-govts","tag-issuing","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-permits","tag-rulers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traditional"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}