NMW, Media and stakeholders hail Adegbite’s appointment

&NewLine;<p><br> The appointment of the new Nigerian Minister of Mines and Steel Development&comma; Olamilekan Adegbite&comma; has been welcomed by key media and event stakeholders in the country’s mining sector&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;Shortly after his appointment last week&comma; the&NewLine;new minister was quoted as saying that he intends to learn from current Ekiti&NewLine;State Governor Kayode Fayemi&comma; who held the position from 2015 to 2018&comma; and who&NewLine;he said did a lot in the sector&period; Minister Adegbite is the former Ogun state&NewLine;Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure&period;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;During his tenure&comma; former mining minister Governor Kayode Fayemi established&NewLine;the foundation and groundwork upon which Nigeria’s mining sector can grow&NewLine;towards contributing 10&percnt; to GDP in 2026&comma;” says Laura Cornish&comma;&nbsp&semi;Editor-in-Chief&NewLine;of the leading mining trade publication Mining Review Africa&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If the newly&NewLine;appointed Olamilekan Adegbite follows in his footsteps&comma; then the realisation of&NewLine;a vibrant mining sector in the next few years is undoubtedly achievable&period;”<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;She adds&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Mining Review Africa looks forward to hearing from Adegbite at this&NewLine;year’s&nbsp&semi;Nigeria Mining Week&nbsp&semi;which&NewLine;is the ideal platform to stay informed about government’s plans for bringing&NewLine;investment into the country&period;”<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;Also&comma; the organisers of&nbsp&semi;Nigeria&NewLine;Mining Week&nbsp&semi;have congratulated the&NewLine;newly appointed cabinet member&comma; saying Minister Adegbite holds the key to&NewLine;driving the renewal of the Nigerian mining sector&period; ”We have been following&NewLine;developments in the mining industry since the appointment of the former cabinet&NewLine;in 2015 and have witnessed the development of the sector over the past five&NewLine;years” says Emmanuelle Nicholls&comma; Group Director&colon; Mining at Spintelligent&comma;&NewLine;organisers of the annual&nbsp&semi;Nigeria Mining Week&nbsp&semi;exhibition and conference in Abuja in partnership with the Miners&NewLine;Association of Nigeria &lpar;MAN&rpar; and PwC Nigeria&period;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;She adds&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the global mining community is now paying attention to the&NewLine;renaissance of mining in Nigeria and its interest continues to increase&period; Mining&NewLine;is fast becoming the industry of repute and promise for the diversification of&NewLine;the Nigerian economy&period; We have high hopes for the sector and wish for industry’s&NewLine;growth to continue at a steady rate over the next decade and we have faith in&NewLine;the new Minister of Mines and Steel Development Adegbite and in his commitment&NewLine;to the sector to lead this trajectory&comma;” she concludes&period;<br>&NewLine;<strong>Official host ministry&NewLine;partner<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;The Nigerian Ministry of Mines and Steel Development is the official host&NewLine;ministry partner of the annual&nbsp&semi;Nigeria Mining Weekconference and exhibition&comma; taking place from&NewLine;14-16 October in Abuja&period; Since inception four years ago&comma; both predecessors of&NewLine;Minister Adegbite&comma; Governor Kayode Fayemi and most recently Mr Bawa&nbsp&semi;Bwari&comma;&NewLine;have attended the event in their capacity as Mining and Steel Development&NewLine;Minister either as keynote speaker or as VIP guest&period;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;This year’s industry gathering in Abuja is expected to attract more than 1200&NewLine;mining experts&comma; 180&plus; mines and exploration companies&comma; 40&plus; sponsors with more&NewLine;than 24 countries represented&period;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;Leading industry supplier Barron is returning as a gold sponsor while AG&NewLine;Vision&comma; Kian Smith Trade Co&comma; Meridian Drilling &amp&semi; Exploration Services and&NewLine;PW Nigeria Ltd have also already confirmed as silver sponsors&period;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;<strong>Nigeria Mining Week dates and&NewLine;location&colon;<&sol;strong><br>&NewLine;14 October 2019&colon; Pre-conference&colon; Finance and investment day<br>&NewLine;15-16 October 2019&colon; Opening Session&comma; conference and exhibition<br>&NewLine;Venue&colon; NAF Conference Centre and Suites&comma;&nbsp&semi;Abuja&comma; Nigeria<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;