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Patrick Pascal felicitates with Tetfund Boss, Suleiman Bogoro on Award of Excellence from Leadership/Business day – Newspapers

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7 years ago

March 23, 2020

Chairman of Bauchi state football association, Patrick Pascal has joined other facilitators across the globe in rejoicing with Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND)- Executive Secretary, Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro, after being conferred simultaneously with different awards from Leadership newspapers and Business Day newspapers, for his giant strides in the education sector.

Pascal, the super eagles’ most efficient Coordinator in his felicitation messages to the awardee ” Your achievement in Tetfund is not surprising to many of us in Bauchi state. In fact, I wasn’t jarred when the federal government approved your appointment as the Executive security of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund earlier in 2019, at Abuja.

“Your sophisticated leadership cum managerial skills are part what has distinguished you amongst your peers all over Nigeria; you are a leading light to many of us in our dear Bauchi state” pascal explained in his eulogies

The former Atlanta 1996 Olympic gold medallist, Patrick Pascal convey Bauchi state football association’s congratulatory message to the most distinguished Professor Suleiman Bogoro, even as he seeks for supports from his statesman

“We at Bauchi state football association felicitate with you, we pray mightily God to continue to strengthen you beyond your imaginations. It’s a thing of Joy for us because you are making us proud anywhere you being given the mantle of leadership.

” The Bauchi state football executives have started reforms from all angles of our state. However, our shoulders won’t be able to carry some of these responsibilities, hence, we are calling on you for more support; for you are a man of valor, who believe in building capacity from the ground up ” Pascal bespeaks

Patrick Pascal (Mon), the Bauchi state football association Supremo, who has been very radical in revamping Football in his state, implicitly reveals that plans are on the way to create chains of grassroots football competition on the name of Professor Suleiman Bogoro.

The humble Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro, was bestowed with ” Public Service Person Of The Year” by Leadership newspapers at International Conference Center, Abuja. While Business Day newspapers lay upon him ” Excellence in Public Service “, at Yar’Adua Center, Abuja.

Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro is from Bauchi state, one of the Za’ar or Sayawa major inhabitants of Bogoro Local government area. He is a leader on the pioneer council – Think Tank For Translating Research to Innovations, Strategies, Evidence for Policy And National Development – Created by the University of Ibadan Research Foundation.

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

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3 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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