MINISTER OF MINES, KAYODE FAYEMI RESIGNS TO CONTEST GOVERNORSHIP RACE

Fayemi said other achievements include stronger institutional capacity, enhanced capacity of staffs, improved infrastructure, better cooperative federalism, improvement in productivity, profitable collaboration with international development agencies.

The former Minister expressed optimism that the Minister of State, Abubakar Bawa Bwari, who will now take charge of the Ministry, would forge ahead with the various reforms and innovations that have helped to reposition the sector.

He lauded the support of the President stating that, owing to Buhari’s understanding the Ministry was able to access N30billion intervention fund, which was the mining component of the National Resource Fund for the very first time since the creation of the ministry.