Nigerian mining cadastre office and the challenges of revenue drive, by Abah Adah The realisation that the wealth and prosperity of a nation are not dependent on its endowment with abundant natural resources but on prudent and transparent resource management practices so that resource blessing would not turn resource curse informed the establishment of a mining cadastre among nations. The Federal Government of Nigeria in pursuit of its mining sector reform programme, implemented by the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development (MMSD) in collaboration with the World Bank Sustainable Management of...