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Poor states rack up debts, leave $335b minerals to illegal miners
• Unaddressed conflict between FG, states, insecurity leave investors in uncertainty • Tinubu govt playing to gallery on illegal mining, stakeholders insist • Experts want solid minerals to remain on exclusive listÂ