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Ajaokuta: Reps Question Govt’s 500m Euro Bill in NIOMCO’s Agreement

The House of Representatives Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation sub-committee on Steel  is to meet with the Minister for  Solid Mineral Development, Dr....

Opinion: Ajaokuta, Hope Renewed?

•We must get it right this time if we are truly desirous of industrialising Thirty-seven years after its establishment, and eight years after a rather acrimonious...

Global Steel Begins Work At NIOMCO

Mining and geological experts brought in by Global Steel Holdings Limited have moved into the site of the National Iron Ore Mining Company (NIOMCO) Itapke and have...

Opinion: Ajaokuta In Our Hands Again

By Tunji Adegboyega. If I had not visited the Ajaokuta Steel Complex in Ajaokuta, Kogi State, before, perhaps I would not always be passionate about the abandonment that...

Opinion: Ajaokuta Steel/NIOMCO And The Modified Concession

By Michael Jegede When President Muhammadu Buhari promised during his electioneering campaign in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital last year January to revive Ajaokuta...

NIOMCO Itakpe: Now That Global Steel Holdings Limited Is Back

By Wakil El Habib. The Federal Government of Nigeria on Monday this week entered into a modified agreement with Global Steel Holdings Limited also known as Global Steel,...

Itakpe: Don’t Concession NIOMCO To GHSL, Group Urges Buhari

A group, Concerned Delta Indigenes Forum, CDIF, has appealed to the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to jettison the proposed concessioning of the...

Ownership Crisis Ends, Nigeria Retakes Ajaokuta Steel Company

The Federal Government on Monday took a major step in its plan to revitalise the steel sector as it signed a renegotiated concession agreement with Global Steel Holdings...

3 Mine Workers Abducted in Kogi, Kidnappers Demand N30m

Three officials of Niomco Ltd, a company in the Itakpe area of Kogi state, were abducted on Monday, while their kidnappers have demanded a ransom of N30 million. One of...