The Federal Ministry of Stable Minerals Improvement is partnering with EnergyNet to ship the primary Nigeria NOW
ABUJA, Nigeria – EQS Newswire – 3 September 2026 – The Nigeria NOW! takes place on 19 and 20 November on the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Worldwide Convention Centre, below the patronage of the Honourable Minister of Stable Minerals Improvement, Dr Dele Alake. Between 500 and 600 delegates are anticipated throughout vitality, infrastructure and mining.
The Federal Ministry of Stable Minerals Improvement is partnering with EnergyNet to ship the primary Nigeria NOW!, and has dedicated to stay concerned by way of the preparatory interval slightly than on the occasion alone. The Ministry hosted the Abuja launch, secured the patronage of the Honourable Minister, and convened three additional federal ministries as deliberate individuals.
Talking on the launch by way of Engr. Obadiah Simon Nkom, Director-Basic of the Mining Cadastre Workplace, Dr Alake set out why 4 ministries take part slightly than one. Infrastructure, licensing, financing, know-how, safety and market entry fall throughout a number of mandates, and no single ministry can reply an investor’s questions on all of them.
Why Nigeria
Nigeria now points no mining licence and not using a plan for a neighborhood processing plant. The rule has been utilized persistently and the funding following it features a $1.3 billion partnership with the Africa Finance Company protecting an alumina refinery, geological mapping and exploration assist, a $600 million lithium processing plant close to the Kaduna-Niger border, and a $200 million lithium refinery outdoors Abuja.
The primary working demonstration is already working. A lithium plant at Endo in Nasarawa State, commissioned on 2 July, processes 6,000 tonnes of ore a day on round $250 million of funding. Sector income reached over 38 billion naira in 2024 towards 6 billion the earlier yr. A memorandum signed with Türkiye in Could covers exploration, know-how switch, digitalisation and coaching, and the Stable Minerals Improvement Fund started awarding exploration grants in July below its new EMERGE endowment.
Nigeria’s energy sector is shifting on the identical precept of decentralised decision-making. Two years into the Electrical energy Act 2023, the Nigerian Electrical energy Regulatory Fee has transferred regulatory oversight to sixteen subnational commissions, giving states authority over their very own electrical energy markets for the primary time. The Nigerian Sovereign Funding Authority has put home capital behind distributed renewable vitality, and industrial self-supply has reached 200MW, with a metal plant among the many initiatives breaking floor towards it.
Dr Alake’s personal formulation is that the times of exporting uncooked minerals from pit to port are over.
What the Expo covers
Nigeria NOW! brings authorities, buyers, mission builders, monetary establishments and improvement companions collectively round three sectors, vitality, infrastructure and mining, with a give attention to initiatives, capital and partnerships slightly than bulletins alone. The programme runs throughout two days on the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Worldwide Convention Centre in Abuja.
“That is the primary Nigeria NOW! held in Nigeria, and the Ministry’s dedication to remain concerned by way of the preparatory interval is what makes it completely different from a convention that arrives and leaves,” mentioned Abdoulaye Sylla, Portfolio Supervisor and Head of Company Improvement at EnergyNet. “We anticipate between 500 and 600 delegates, and the Ministry has requested that the Expo be judged on what’s delivered after it closes.”
Companions
Nextier joins the Expo as Official Advisory Companion, offering strategic advisory and media assist throughout the programme.
The Nigerian Indigenous Girls in Mining and Pure Sources Organisation (NIWIMNRO) joins as Girls in Mining Companion. The community was recognised on the Abuja launch with EnergyNet’s Management Award and a $25,000 grant, following a yr through which it took its work with girls artisanal miners from three states to all six of Nigeria’s geopolitical zones, including protecting tools, cell medical visits and cooperative registration to the coaching programme it started with.
Girls in Mining joins as Girls in Mining in Nigeria Companion; The Lagos State Ministry of Power and Mineral Sources joins as Lagos State Sponsor; The Electrical energy Hub joins as Official Podcast Companion.
YES! Nigeria
The Youth Power Summit runs alongside Nigeria NOW! on 20 November on the identical venue, bringing younger professionals and entrepreneurs into the identical constructing because the buyers and ministries. The Youth Sustainable Improvement Community joins as a associate for the Nigerian version, alongside the College of Abuja’s Centre for Entrepreneurship Improvement and College students as YES! Supporting Companion.
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