FG to complete Ajaokuta steel company — Minister…
Written by City Radio on November 15, 2023
The Minister of Steel Development, Shuaibu Audu, has said that the Federal Government led by President Bola Tinubu will complete the ailing Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi State, to create wealth and employment in the country.
Also, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, called for support from the Geographic Information Society of Nigeria to enable the government to address the problem of insecurity and oil theft in the country.
The two ministers spoke during the 20th-anniversary celebration and Annual General Conference of GEOSON which ended in Jos, Plateau State on Wednesday.
They noted that globalisation had become the order of the day in the area of geo-information technological tools that contain spatial information.
They insisted that for Nigeria to make progress and join the league of developed countries, it must harness all the emerging potentials inherent in the geo-information system.
Similarly, Audu who acknowledged the role of the geo-information system in collecting, storing and processing scientific information for steel production, added that the federal government was committed to resuscitating the Ajaoktuta steel Industry to create wealth for Nigeria.
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