Investor Presentaiton
London. The Executive Secretary attended the forum. While the Department
prepared the power point presentation for the event.
IPAWAS
The Commission was represented at the Exco meeting of IPAWAS which held in
Abidjan on the 1st May, 2006. The meeting discussed the setting up of a website
for the group as well as sensitization tours to other ECOWAS countries who
were yet to set up investment promotion agencies. NIPC was requested to
submit a proposal for the set up of the new website and work to host the next
meeting of the group in August. The trip was sponsored by Pro-invest. ring the
trip.
UNIDO CSF NATIONAL TEAM MEETING
The Commission was represented at the Planning Committee for the proposed
visit of DG of UNIDO Dr. Yumkella to Nigeria. The meeting held on the 27th of
April at UN House Abuja. NIPC is the alternate Chairman of the Committee on
Governance, Trade, Investment Promotion and Public-Private partnership.
LAUNCHING OF THE NIGERIAN SOLID MINERAL BRAND
The Commission participated in the Launching of the Nigerian Solid Mineral
Brand by the Minister of Solid Mineral Development on 31st January 2006, where
new developments in the sector were brought to fore:
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34 Minerals of Nigeria
Online real Time Cadastre system
57 rare earth metals
10 locations with over 30,000 ounces of gold deposits in each.
27 billion barrels of bitumen.
The Nigerian Solid Minerals Brand has attracted JP Morgan, Standard Bank of
US and UK respectively in promoting the extraction of Nigerian Minerals, and
proposals are said to be made by these big Banks to Mining majors and other
Industrial Mineral stakeholder in the world to avail the plethora of Nigeria's vast
wealth in the sector. Revalidation of Mining Tiles had been done, and currently
there are 1417 leaseholds and titles existing in the sector.
THE PRESIDENTIAL CONSULTATIVE AND ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Pparticipated in the Presidential Consultative and Advisory Committee on
SMEEIS, where copies of the Regulatory and Supervisory Guidelines on Micro
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