Mining pits are left unfilled, turning farmland into dangerous wastelands. In the sprawling arid lands of Gashuwa in Fika Local Government Area of Yobe State, Abdullahi Adamu, a 46-year-old man from ...
Out in the middle of the Mojave Desert is the ghost town of Midland, a gypsum mining town abandoned and then burned down in the 60s, whose infamy may come from the use of the gypsum crystals extracted ...