Minister for Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Oladele Alake has restated the overarching policy of value addition by any company with requisite licence and permits to mine minerals, just as he made a clarion call to potential investors that the era of exporting raw materials is over. At the foundation stone laying ceremony of a 16,000 tonnes Lithium battery processing factory …

Experts have commended the Ministry of Solid Minerals Development on its transformative plans to reposition and sanitize the mining sector towards achieving rapid economic development of the country. Panelists on the Nigerian Television Authority programme, Good Morning Nigeria recommended that the Ministry should have a positive outlook on previous roadmaps and policies that were enunciated in year 2012 and 2106 …

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Oladele Alake has restated that the decision of the Federal Government to diversify from hydrocarbon to making the minerals sector major contributor to Nigeria’s gross domestic product is the country’s contribution to climate change. Dr Alake dropped this hint While receiving a delegation of the Miners Association of Nigeria, led by its National …

Solid Minerals Minister, Dr. Oladele Alake has commended Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) for supporting the Tinubu administration in its agenda to transform the solid minerals sector into the country’s highest source of revenue. During a business visit of AFC’s President/Chief Executive Officer, Mr Samaila Zubairu to his office in Abuja on Tuesday, Alake said that every effort made through policies …

The Ministry of Solid Minerals Development will work with governors to harness mineral resources for maximum socio-economic development of the country. Receiving  Nasarawa State Governor, Engr. Abdullahi Sule, who was on a courtesy visit to his office in Abuja on Thursday, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Mr. Dele Alake said that the Ministry is determined and committed to harness …

Nigerian professionals in the solid minerals sector will soon travel to Australia for more studies, thanks to a deal brokered on Wednesday in Perth, Australia by the Minister of Solid Minerals, Mr. Dele Alake. Presenting the request to Western Australia’s Minister for Mines and Petroleum; Energy; Hydrogen Industry; and Industrial Relations, Hon. Bill Johnston, on a courtesy visit, Alake acknowledged …

Senate President Godswill Akpabio, on Wednesday prevented the President’s media aide, Mr. Dele Alake from reciting the second stanza of the National Anthem. Alake was asked by the Minority leader, Senator Simon Mwadkwom to recite the second stanza of the National Anthem after taking the nominee up on his old social media post. Mwadkwom said: “I read a statement where …

President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Mr. Dele Alake, on Saturday in Lagos, said President Bola Tinubu is ready to provide leadership on the local and foreign scenes. Alake said the rest of Africa looks up to Nigeria for leadership. “Everybody is looking up to Nigeria, especially in Africa and the ECOWAS region and President …

The presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed certainty that its candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu would win Saturday’s election. “Nigerians will elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, for, he clearly stands apart from the pack and has worked so much to earn the trophy”, the campaign …

Accomplished journalists and writers, lawyers of immense stature, and professionals of all hues are stripping themselves and dancing naked on the altar of political partisanship; even those who pretend at calling them to order are no less guilty of similar offences! May I not fall into the same miry clay! The stakes are high: the presidency of Nigeria is touted …