…will serve as Coordinating Director for Media and Strategic Communication alongside Dele Alake, Bayo Onanuga and Lanre Issa-Onilu. Tunde Rahman, Sunday Dare, Daniel Bwala and Felix Morka were named coordinating deputy directors of the same directorate, while Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, Temitope Ajayi, Aderonke Arabirin and Fr…

…following decades of mining activities. The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, said the government was seeking private investors willing to partner with it to transform the abandoned pits from dangerous sites into productive economic assets. Alake made this known while reacting to the collapse of an ab…

…Minerals Development, Lara Owoeye-Wise, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake, led the Nigeria Solid Minerals Company (NSMC) delegation to the White House for high-level discussions with David Copley, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Supply Chain at the U.S. Owoeye-…

…Special Adviser on Media and Strategy to the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake, Kehinde Bamigbetan, has dismissed claims that the minister is handing over Nigeria’s mineral resources to Chinese interests. Bamigbetan, in a statement issued at the weekend, described the allegations as false and misle…

…the same resources. The call was made by the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, at the Ministerial Forum on Critical Minerals, Value Chain and Beneficiation: Pathways for African Transformation, organised under the auspices of the African Development Bank in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Alake also called fo…

…State. Onoja, while conveying the message of the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, and the Commandant General of the NSCDC, Professor Ahmed Abubakar Audi, urged the people of Ankpa, Kogi State, to embrace legitimate mining by partnering only with duly licensed mining companies. He advised host communi…

…the visit, Onoja conveyed the goodwill of the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Dele Alake, and the Commandant General of the NSCDC, Prof. Ahmed Abubakar Audi, urging residents to support only licensed mining operators. He called on host communities to report any licensed mining company that fails to comply wi…

…team on a courtesy visit in Abuja, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake, described the Commission as a critical institution in Nigeria’s development architecture, stressing that effective governance depends on credible identity management systems.According to him, technology, reliable data and dig…

…under control.” Reacting to the operation, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, said the Tinubu administration had made the sanitisation of the mining sector a national priority through a combination of stronger enforcement, regulatory reforms, intelligence gathering and community engagement. Accordi…

…Product, GDP, by 2030, a target set by the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr Dele Alake, under his Seven-Point Agenda for the sector. She emphasized the scale of Nigeria's mining opportunity, and its historical underperformance, despite the presence of more than 44 minerals in commercial quantities across over…

"Host communities deserve to benefit from the resources in their land, and there will be consequences for those who ignore that responsibility."