The newly sworn in Minister of Solid Minerals, Dele Alake, says his team is set to implement President Bola Tinubu’s directive in line with the mandate of the sector.
The Minister, who assume duty at the Ministry headquarters on Monday in Abuja, however said that he has a roadmap to be unveil in the days ahead for the sector.
Alake said: “Having worked with Mr. President in his cabinet as a commissioner for eight years, I understood what results are, and we are here to achieve results. I believe we can do it with all hands on deck.”
“We won’t allow bottlenecks to stifled our set goals, it’s either you shape in or you ship out. If you can really sit down to listen, you would understand that, Hydrocarbon is fading out and the attention of the world is shifting to solid minerals. So, we must get it right.”
Also, the Minister of Steel Development, Shuaibu Abubakar Audu, said it was time to move the country to the G-20 industrialized nations.
He said, “The mandate of Mr. President is to ensure that we get it right in the steel sector and as a young ministry, we would work towards the production of steel in the country in no distance time. We are set to kick start the Ajaokuta steel machine and Nigeria can not afford to fail in steel production.”