Nigeria Mining Week
Conference Agenda

Chairperson: Habeeb Jaiyeola Partner, Head Mining Industry, PwC, Nigeria

Nigerian mining macroeconomic review
Exploring business opportunities and the knowledge in an emerging mining sector.

Key indicators that investors are attracted to the mining sector in Nigeria?
Tim Tokun, Managing Partner, Motimose Metals, Nigeria.

Infrastructure, technology, and mining innovation needed to fast track the development of the sector.
Suleiman Ibrahim, Director, Capital Project Infrastructure Leader, West Market Area and Member of Bitumen Transaction, PwC, Nigeria

The government’s vision on the investor’s incentives in the mining sector: approach and implementation.
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Mines & Steel Development, Nigeria*

Grab this opportunity to be part of those who are making it in the mining value chain. Join the Business Den and take 5 (five) minutes to share your services, your solutions, your business opportunities to a pool of key decision makers and business transformers.

Providing Practical Financial Know-how to Miners

Providing practical financial know-how to miners is an essential component of ensuring the long-term sustainability and success of mining operations. In an industry where capital-intensive projects and resource volatility are common challenges, equipping miners with financial literacy and management skills is crucial.

Facilitated by: Representative, Africa Finance Corporation, Nigeria & Representative, SMDF, Nigeria

“The Mining Regulatory Framework” - legal, regulatory, institutional, and fiscal reforms needed.

A comprehensive discussion of the legal, regulatory, institutional, and fiscal reforms to with a focus on the the responsible and sustainable development of the mining industry in Nigeria.

Chairperson:Oyenike Babayemi-Saulawa, Chairperson, Syil Mining Nigeria

Promoting gender equality in the mining sector through strong leadership, commitment and prioritization that is supported by a mining law and stakeholders such as governments bodies, private sector, including civil societies, could be key drivers of women’s empowerment in the mining industry.

Item 1: Interview on Policies related to women extractive
Faith Nwadishe, Executive Director, Centre for Transparency Advocacy, Nigeria
Beatrice Ndong, UN Women Representative, United Nations, Nigeria

Item 2: Dialogue in women inclusion and gender equality

Item 3: Interview on Advocacy for Women in the extractive industry

Chairperson: Cyril Azobu, Partner & Mining Leader, PwC, Nigeria

Welcome Coffee, Networking Session & Address from the Organisers. Samukelo Madlabane, Event Director, VUKA Group, South Africa

Welcome Address from PwC
Cyril Azobu, Partner & Mining Leader, PwC, Nigeria

Welcome Address from Miners Association of Nigeria
Dele Ayanleke, President, Miners Association of Nigeria

Goodwill Message
Dele Kelvin Oye, President, Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA)

Opening Remarks
Olukayode Ramos, Managing Director, Mosra Energy Limited, Nigeria

Opening Remarks
CEO, African Finance Corporation, Nigeria

Ministerial address
H. E. Hon. Dele Alake, Minister of Solid Minerals, Nigeria*

VIP Tour and Official Opening of the Exhibition

Moderated by: Johnson Ayeni, Editorial Assistant, Rockpost, Nigeria

This session will bring together national regulators, utilities companies, investors in green energy, services providers and financiers who share the same interest in power energy access and to bring solutions to the mining sector and the communities.

Panel Discussion

- Responding to global green energy dialogue: it’s relevance to the country’s priorities.
- The vision of the energy transition plan as a drive for the economic growth for Nigeria
- Will Nigeria be ready in achieving the country net zero goal by 2060 versus coal usage?

Participants

Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, Executive Secretary and CEO, Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency initiative, Nigeria
Olukayode Ramos, Managing Director, Mosra Energy Limited, Nigeria
Muntaqa Umar-Sadiq, Principal Finance Specialist- Senior Policy Adviser, The Energy Transition Office, Nigeria*
Senior representative, Total Energies, Nigeria*
Mr. Oluyomi Banjo, National Coordinator- Environment and Energy, UNIDO, Nigeria*

Moderated by: Rukaiya El-Rufai, Partner- ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) & (Environmental, Social and Governance) Expert, PwC, Nigeria

Panel Discussion:

- Through the continuous formalisation of the artisanal mining
- Best practice, case studies and lessons learnt from other nations
- Through alternatives and innovative finance solutions
- The role of disruptive innovation in mining
- By optimising the livelihood of mining communities and societies.
- Achieving sustainability impact in gender equality and improving social inclusion.
- And by contributing to the carbonisation reduction goal by 2030

Participants

Engr. Simon Nkom Obadiah, Chairman, Bitumen Committee and Director-General, Mining Cadastre Office (MCO)
Oyenike Babayemi-Saulawa, Chairperson, Syil Mining Nigeria
Beatrice Ndong, UN Women Representative, United Nations, Nigeria

Presentations 1:
Senior representative, Titan Minerals, Nigeria

Presentations 2:
Senior representative, Rapidlink Group of Companies Limited, Nigeria

Presentations 3:
Senior representative, Thor Exploration, Nigeria*

Presentations 4:
Aminu Suleman Takuma, Commissioner Ministry of Industry Trade and investment, Niger State

Presentations 5:
Senior representative PW, Nigeria*

Panel Discussion

- Rising demand for critical minerals what this mean for the Nigerian economy?
- What is the way forward in driving the Nigerian Mining sector forward?
- Exploring the global market’s interest for the Nigerian Lithium, which country will lead the demand?
- How to balance between the under-utilisation of mineral resources versus undeveloped huge deposits versus local transformation law?

Participants

Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, President, Nigeria Private Sector Alliance, Nigeria*
Tim Tokun, Managing Partner, Motimose Metals, Nigeria

Panel Discussion

- How to benefit from the Solid Mineral Development fund? - What are the Nigerian Minerals and Metals Act, 2007 says about financing small scale miners in Nigeria?

Participants

Hajiya. Fatima Shinkafi, Executive Secretary, Solid Mineral Development Funds, Nigeria*
Senior representative, Africa Finance Corporation, Nigeria

Panel Discussion

- Youth as game changers: How to add value to youth’s potential for innovation?
- Is there a place for youth talents in the mining sector- how to encourage them to join?
- What can the extractive industry do to help eradicate youth unemployment in Nigeria?
- Creating policies to promote mining talents development and youth integration.
- What is prevent the collaboration between the public, the private sector and training institutions to produce mining elite made in Nigeria?

Participants

Prof. David Esezobor, Professor of extractive metallurgy and zero waste technology department of metallurgy and materials engineering at University of Lagos, Nigeria
Prof Abdulrasheed, Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja, Nigeria Obed Chinlereobi Innoncent, Engineering Student, University of Jos, Nigeria

Panel discuss on the government’s achievements and implement of laws, new policies, and new measures for the advancement of the mining sector in Nigeria.

Where is the roadblock and how to remove it?

Participants
H. E. Hon. Dele Alake, Minister of Solid Minerals, Nigeria* Aminu Suleman Takuma, Commissioner Ministry of Industry Trade and investment, Niger State