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Joyce Daniels, 34 Others Emerge Electher Future Lawmakers Leaders

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5 years ago

October 6, 2021

… Plans To Change Political Narratives

Joyce Daniels, a Social Engineering Practitioner, is among the 35 women from across six geo-political zones in Nigeria elected to lead the ElectHER Future Lawmakers Programme.

ElectHER Future Lawmakers Programme is an intensive six-month legislative and leadership development programme, that aims to change the political narrative of representation, especially for womenin in the country.

The ElectHER Future Lawmakers Programme targets legislative and leadership development programme for aspiring female lawmakers between 25 and 45.

Joyce Daniels, a speaker and moderator who has shaped the MC and events moderating industry and trained thousands of others in 14 years of business, has always shown great interest in politics and nation-building. Joyce Daniels said, “this fellowship serves as the confluence of passion and skill, and the opportunity of refining the leader in me.”

Leading to their orientation ceremony, held, September 26, 2021, 22 of the 35 fellows vyed for the position of class governor. During the two-stage selection process, votes from the general public totalled 5,775 in the first stage of the selection process.

As a result, five of the 22 candidates emerged as the top finalists. They were, Joyce Daniels, Olaboopo Olubukola Rainat, Chikas Kumle, Rabi Adamu Musa, and Nella Andem-Ewa.

The second stage maintained transparency and a fair playing field as fellows voted their preferred choice of class Governor anonymously. The results presented a landslide victory for Joyce Daniels while Barr. Rabi Musa came in second place.

The Social Engineering Practitioner, Joyce Daniels, emerged as class governor to serve alongside Barr. Rabi Musa, who came in second place as the Deputy Class Governor. In her remarks as Class Governor during the virtual orientation programme, Joyce Daniels affirmed that she “… sees the lives of each fellow transform by being on this journey.” She remains committed to applying her exceptional skills, capacity and competencies, working alongside her deputy to ensure a seamless, harmonious, productive relationship amongst the fellows, the faculty and the organisers.

As a Social Engineering Practitioner, Joyce Daniels aspires to influence the development of communities and, by extension, Nigeria, one individual at a time. As a fellow of ElectHER Future Lawmakers Programme, a non-partisan progressive women’s political advancement organisation bridging inequality gaps in African democracy, Joyce advocates for women’s leadership across appointive and elective offices and prepares herself to take various leadership roles.

At the orientation ceremony, Chairman Platform Capital, Dr Akintoye Akindele, congratulated the 35 women selected for the ElectHER Future Lawmakers Programme and urging them to set the pathway for future lawmakers and aspirants in Nigeria and across Africa. Members of the ElectHER Advisory Committee also gave congratulatory messages during the Orientation Ceremony. These include Mr Dapo Oyewole, Special Adviser on International and Interparliamentary Affairs to the Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Mr Bukola Idowu, Head of Kimpact Development Initiative (KDI), Cynthia Mbamalu, Director of Programs, Yiaga, and Opeyemi Oriniowo, Principal Partner, Rindev Consulting.

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Alake Inaugurates Nigeria-US Solid Minerals Committee, Dismisses $700bn Claim, Says No Assets Sold

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2 days ago

October 28, 2026

The Gleamer

Joel Ajayi

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake, on Tuesday inaugurated the Nigeria-United States Committee on Strategic Cooperation in the Solid Minerals Sector in Abuja, dismissing reports that Nigeria sold $700 billion worth of solid minerals to the US.

The inauguration followed the strategic cooperation framework established between Nigeria and the United States during the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York.

In a statement issued on Wednesday by the Head PRESS and Public Relations Department Mrs. Kania Maliki Andeyaba stated that, Alake in the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, signed with the US is a government-to-government platform to facilitate business-to-business engagements between American investors and Nigerian local operators, not a sale of assets.

Harping on the importance of the solid minerals sector to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s economic diversification agenda, he noted that the administration was committed to reducing dependence on a mono-product economy through the sustainable development of Nigeria’s vast mineral resources.

According to him, the Nigeria–US partnership as a strategic initiative to attract investment, promote technology transfer, strengthen local mineral processing and create employment opportunities.

“There is no sale of any Nigerian asset. There’s nothing exchanging hands,” Alake declared.

“We created a platform to facilitate mingling of US investment ventures with Nigeria’s local operators. It is in the public domain. We signed it in public and published it in four or five national newspapers.”

The Minister said reports claiming the US was coming to take over Nigeria’s minerals and security architecture were untrue at best and products of riotous imagination at worst.

Explaining the policy thrust, Alake said Africa has historically held the short end of the stick in global economic transactions, and Nigeria is determined to change that model.

“We have the resources, the critical elements the world needs to transit to clean energy. So we are creating a new paradigm — you bring your capital, expertise and technology, to match with our natural resources and create a win-win situation . The investor gains, Nigeria gains.’’he said.

Nigeria, he stressed, had operated a mono-cultural economy dependent on oil, while solid minerals were exploited informally — with ores taken “from pit to port” without value addition.

Alake said government has now made local processing mandatory, refusing to grant mineral titles to investors without a clear pathway to processing in Nigeria.

He said the policy led to the springing up of processing factories, including the largest lithium processing plant in West Africa commissioned recently in Nasarawa by the Vice President, and informed the formation of the African Minerals Strategy Group.

Alake noted that investor confidence has returned due to macro-economic reforms by President Bola Tinubu that guarantee security of tenure and repatriation of profits.

He charged the committee to discharge its assignment responsibly, saying its work is strategic to achieving the President’s $1 trillion economy target.

To this end, he told the Committee to ensure effective coordination, identify investment opportunities and translate the framework into measurable outcomes capable of positioning Nigeria as a competitive player in the global solid minerals industry.

In his welcome address, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Engr. Faruk Yusuf Yabo, said the inauguration translates growing bilateral engagements into a structured framework for practical cooperation and investment mobilization

Economic Officer at the US Embassy, Jonathan Baas, said President Donald Trump has prioritized three areas for US embassies — energy, artificial intelligence/super intelligence, and critical minerals.

Baas said Washington’s direction is to work with partners to secure critical supply chains while ensuring partners capture value.

“We just signed a contract today on looking into building AI data centres in Nigeria at the Nigerian Economic Summit. That’s the direction Washington wants us to go,” he said.

In his vote of thanks, CEO/Managing Director of Nigeria Solid Minerals Company, NSMC said that the committee

is expected to coordinate implementation, facilitate investment and monitor progress towards achieving the objectives of the Nigeria–US cooperation framework.

The inauguration reinforces the Federal Government’s commitment to repositioning the solid minerals sector as a key driver of economic diversification, industrial development and national prosperity under President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

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