It is a follow up to their first meeting a day after the primary election won by Fayemi.
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He said: “I can see that delegates from the 11 local government have cast their votes and there was no fraudulent acts or riot, everything is going on smoothly.
Fayemi, also an aspirant, spoke against the backdrop of the scuttling of the primaries midway by those he described as having seen the writing clearly that they were going to lose the election.
Welcoming the representatives of BGS, Matt Harrison and Jenny Forster, to the ministry on Monday, the Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Hon. Abubakar Bawa Bwari, said Nigeria could not talk about geological survey without reference to her colonial masters, Britain.
The report said: “This signifies that between 2015 and 2016, there was 300 per cent margin, while in 2017, it went up from N2.1 billion to more than N3.5 billion.
Dr Abdulkadir Muazu, the Permanent Secretary of the Sector, announced this to the News Agency of Nigeria on the sideline of a two-day workshop on Policy and Capacity Building for a Successful and Sustainable Mining on Tuesday in Abuja.
Patrick Ojeka, Director, Artisanal and Small Scale Mining Department in the ministry, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja.
The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, disclosed this when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the Council’s meeting.
Alhaji Mohammed Abbas, Permanent Secretary of the ministry, said in a statement on Sunday that what the ministry acquired with the money was an integrated IT infrastructure comprising two Data Centres, an off-site recovery centre.