Spread the loveTweetThe federal government has expressed its willingness to partner with Russia to revamp the moribund Ajaokuta Steel Company. The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Arc. Olamilekan Adegbite, stated this when he received the Russian Ambassador to Nigeria, Alexey Shebarshir in his office on Tuesday in Abuja. In …
According to her, Ajaokuta Steel and NIOMCO were set up by the Federal Government in the late 1970s to establish Nigeria as a leading steel exporter but have been inoperative for decades due to a ...
The Minister of Steel Development, Shuaibu Audu, has said that the Federal Government led by President Bola Tinubu will complete the ailing Ajaokuta Steel …
Nigeria has pumped more than US$8 billion into Ajaokuta Steel Company, a project which began more than 40 years ago but has yet to produce one tonne of steel.. Several attempts have been made to ...
The Senate on Tuesday resolved to carry out a thorough investigation on the affairs of Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited and the National Ore Mining Company in …
The Editorial Board. May 17, 2024. In the grand vision for Nigeria's industrial future, the Ajaokuta Steel Company was meant to be a powerhouse, a forge that would ignite a national transformation. Today, it stands as a desolate monument—a chilling mausoleum for over $8 billion in wasted dreams. Rusting behemoths dominate the landscape, a ...
According to Audu, the revamping of the Ajaokuta Steel company and investment by the foreign companies are projected to bring in over $10 billion into Nigeria's economy as well as create 500,000 ...
Last Wednesday, the Transmission Commission of Nigeria disconnected Ajaokuta from the national grid as the moribund company failed to clear a debt of N33 …
The Federal Government, Friday, disclosed engaging original contractors, Tyamzhpromexport, TPE, to resuscitate Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, ASCL. This was made known by the Minister of Steel ...
In Nigeria, political leadership has been a focus of scholarly concerns, (Babalola, 2010) (Muhammed, 2014) (Egbebulem, 2012) this is because despite the huge potential and available human and material resources, there have been a JY Danga (2020) "Leadership and crisis of Steel Development in Nigeria: Wither Ajaokuta Steel Company?"
Steel Company Limited, Kogi State, Nigeria. Akumabi AP, et al. J Environ Anal Toxicol, Volume 10:5, 2020 Page 2 of 7 Figure 1. Map of Kogi State showing Ajaokuta, LGA Kogi State, Nigeria. Figure 2. Geo-reference of plants and soils sampling points around the ASCL, Kogi State, Nigeria.
The Minister of Steel Development, Shuaibu Audu, has said that the Federal Government led by President Bola Tinubu will complete the ailing Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi State, to create wealth ...
The Ajaokuta steel company, which is built on a 24,000 hectares (59,000 acres) site in 1979, is the largest steel mill in Nigeria, and the coke oven and byproducts plant are larger than all the ...
The group leader commended the High Court of Justice of Kogi State, which has restrained the federal government from its planned concession of the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited (ASCL) and the ...
3. KAM INDUSTRIES. Kam Industries is one of the steel companies in Nigeria which manufactures quality steel products such as British Reinforcement Concrete (BRC), roofing nails, couper nails, mesh …
The Ajaokuta Steel Plant, located in Kogi State, was developed in 1979 by the Russian engineering company, Technopromexxport (TPE) under the Shehu Shagari government.. The company is yet to be completed despite the sum of $8 billion being spent on it over the years. The steel company was designed to produce 5.2 million tons of …
Nigeria's foray into steel production came into the national limelight in 1958 amidst independence agitations (Adegbite 2021: 58; Osita 2007: 41; Alli-Balogun 1988: 630).Like oil reserves discovered in 1956 at Oloibiri, iron ore reserves were also discovered in areas such as Itakpe, Agbaja near Lokoja and Udi near Enugu (Matusevich 2003: …
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Lawmaker representing Kogi Central senatorial district, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, on Tuesday, moved a motion to investigate alleged corruption and inefficiency at the Ajaokuta Steel Company ...
The Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited (ASCL) located in Ajaokuta Kogi State is 38 km away from Lokoja, the State Capital of Kogi State. It was created in 1958 under …
(ASCL) as Development Driver in Nigeria: The Policy Alternative Shidali Nasiru Ph.D., Maiye B. Olusegun Department of Political Science & International Relations, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria Abstract: This paper has revisited the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited as development driver in Nigeria with a view to
The Nigerian government says 11 companies have indicated interest to take over Ajaokuta Steel Company on a concession basis. Three of the 11 bidders are Russian companies, the Minister of...
The Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi State of Nigeria was envisaged to serve as the bedrock of Nigeria's industrialisation. The idea of having a steel industry was conceived in 1958 by the federal government. Preliminary market studies were carried out and studies were initially directed towards the feasibility of establishing rolling mills.
Case of Ajaokuta Iron and Steel Company, Kogi State Nigeria. Odiba Isaac Abdul, PhD 1* Daluba Noah Ekeyi, PhD ** Pauline Ann Baba1*** Elizabeth Dajili2 1. Faculty of Education, Kogi State University, Anyigba Nigeria ... Iron and Steel Company as a result of politics and conflicts 846 80.6 10 0.9 190 18.2
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Privatise Ajaokuta Steel Company. 15th May 2024. Ajaokuta Steel Company. By Punch Editorial Board. NIGERIA'S mega steel mill, the Ajaokuta Steel Company has been moribund since its conception ...
It is an integrated steel plant designed to produce 1.3 million tonnes of liquid steel per annum in the first phase, 2.6 million tonnes of liquid steel per annum in the second phase and 5.2 ...
The Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi State of Nigeria was envisaged to serve as the bedrock of Nigeria's industrialisation.
The Nigerian Senate has resolved to set up an Ad-hoc Committee to investigate the affairs of Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited and the National Iron Ore Mining Company (NIOMCO) in Kogi state, between 2008 to date.The Senate also resolved to invite and i ... Ajaokuta Steel and NIOMCO were set up by the Federal Government in …
The Federal Government, Friday, disclosed engaging original contractors, Tyamzhpromexport, TPE, to resuscitate Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, ASCL. This …
It was designed to produce Iron and Liquid steel from (locally occurring raw materials strewn around Nigeria), the Iron Ore Mines at Itakpe, Kogi State being the most …
The idea of large-scale national steel production first arose as early as 1958 among the soon-to-be rulers of an independent Nigeria when it emerged that the regions at Agbaja, near Lokoja, as well as Udi, near Enugu, had significant amounts of iron ore (Matusevich, 2003: 191).The official view became that "any efforts to increase [a developing country's] …
The Steel industry has the potential to earn billions of dollars annually for Nigeria. Regrettably, the country has been importing substantial steel on annual basis. Engr Abdullah Bukar, FNSE, is the Chairman, Board of Trustees of Punjab Educational Endowment Fund. As a former Facilities Engineer in Shell, Bukar worked on the Oben …
The federal government says a three-year roadmap has been developed to resuscitate the moribund Ajaokuta steel plant in Kogi. Shuaibu Audu, minister of steel …
