The once-quiet community of Dutse Bmuko on the outskirts of Abuja has taken a new shape. It is no longer the chirping of crickets at dusk or the chatter of children heading home from school that fills the atmosphere in the evenings, but the roar of heavy-duty trucks and the deafening blasts from the nearby mining site.
However, what used to be a serene village has been transformed by mining. The untarred roads are now coated in heavy dust as a result of the air pollution caused by the blasting.
Daily conveying of stones to construction sites across the city by the heavy-duty trucks has led to traffic cloggi
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