The current County Superintendent, D. Dorr Cooper, who is the chief administrative officer,[4] was appointed by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in 2017.

It built the necessary infrastructure and operated mining, transporting ore by rail to the port of Buchanan, from where it was exported to other markets.

Since the end of the Civil War (which lasted for more than a decade), there are discussions about renewing mining at Nimba is finally getting better.

Arcelor-Mittal, a European-Indian steel business, is committed to reopening the iron mine at Nimba Mountain, outside the former company town of Yekepa.

The houses which were built by LAMCO have partly been rehabilitated by ArcelorMittal, though many had been overtaken by rainforest development.

BHP Billiton has engaged in an extraction agreement with the Government of Liberia to mine ore in Nimba.

The main ethnic groups in Nimba County are the Dan, also known as Gio and the Mano.

The Dan, commonly known as the Gio, live closer to the Côte d'Ivoire border.

These are the historical indigenous peoples of Nimba County who have settled in towns and villages.

The ethnic Krahn live along the Ivory Coast border in Kpeahbleee District.

The other ethnic indigenous groups, the Gbi and Doru, live along the border of Grand Bassa and Rivercess counties.

The Gio and the Mano ethnic group together are referred to as the Dan and are closely related tribes.

There are 74 functional health facilities in Nimba County, of which there is one regional referral: Jackson F. Doe Hospital.