He spoke during a townhall meeting with mining and agro-processing stakeholders in Lafia, Nasarawa State on Thursday.
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The former Senate president gave the assurance when he met with Kogi State PDP national delegates on Sunday.
Danbatta made this call in a keynote address delivered at a two-day brainstorming and team-building session.
Wike made the call when Uchechukwu Ogah, the Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House in Port Harcourt.
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Idris Wase, made the promise in a statement signed by his Umar Muhammad, Chief Press Secretary on Tuesday.
Adegbite said this on Friday in Ajaokuta during a tour of the steel complex.
Minister of Mines and Solid Minerals Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, disclosed this at an interactive session with Senate Committee on Solid Minerals, Mines, Steel Development and Metallurgy in Abuja on Friday.
The Automobile Boatyard, Transport Equipment and Allied Senior Staff Association, says Nigeria’s automobile industry will develop if the Federal Government resuscitates Ajaokuta Steel Company.
Alhaji Abubakar Bwari, the Minister of State, Mines and Steel Development, said that 11 companies indicated interest to operate the Ajaokuta Steel Company.
The House of Representatives on Thursday urged the Federal Government to use the recovered funds from the Abacha loot to fund the Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi.
Bwari gave the assurance while receiving the Russian Ambassador to Nigeria, Alexey Shebarshin, who paid him a courtesy visit on Thursday in Abuja.
Abdul-Akaba told the News Agency of Nigeria in Ajaokuta that over 90 per cent of the facilities in the company had been completed, with many of the units that make up the entire plant already operational.
The community leaders of Geregu and Ajaokuta, the host communities in Kogi, expressed the view in interviews with News Agency of Nigeria.
The company has been recommended as the major investor in Ajaokuta Steel Company.
The bill which was sponsored by Hon. Nkem Abonta and 300 others, seeks to delete the Ajaokuta Steel Company from the list of enterprises to be commercialised.
He urged the present administration to write its name in gold by revamping the company which he said was critical to Nigeria’s quest for economic growth and self-reliance.
Onobere stated this in Ajaokuta, Kogi State, while addressing newsmen who were on a facility tour to the steel complex
Fayemi reiterated this position on the steel complex on Monday during a facility tour of Abuja Steel Mill, a subsidiary of African Steel Company, along Abuja-Kaduna Road
The ISSAN President, Otori Maliki, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the Federal Government should ensure that it settled any court case involving the company before restructuring it
He said: “We have the rare minerals mainly used for high-tech and they are available in abundance in Nasarawa, Zamfara, among others