The Ministry of Mines and Steel Development (MMSD) has spent N700 million to develop an Integrated Automation and Interactive GIS Web Portal to improve `Ease-of-Doing-Business in the mining sector.

The minister, Kayode Fayemi, disclosed this at the launch of the portal on Thursday in Abuja.

Mr. Fayemi said the portal was a cutting edge initiative that leveraged technology for the innovation, efficiency and effectiveness in the mineral sector governance.

He said the overall objective of the project was to increase provision of reliable information and knowledge, to enhance promotion of investments in the sector, using the technology-driven innovation and to increase the sector’s GDP.

The portal was designed for mining investors to perform business processes such as online mining licences and mineral titles applications, online payment of royalties and fees, database for revenue drive and to block revenue leakages.

The portal is credible and provides timely information about the mining sector, performs and responds to online queries, business intelligence/analytics, reports and statistical data generation.

Mining investors could view all existing mining titles and track them anywhere in the world through the portal, access all agencies information, global mining news, live chat and document library, among others.

Lists of mining operators with valid licences and related minerals trade on private mineral buying centre and renewal of private mineral buying centres could also be accessed through the portal.

According to the minister, the portal is designed to serve as an input and decision support system to other entities of governmentMDAs).



“This event is coming at a very auspicious time, on a broad scale; dividends of this administration’s commitment to turning around our economic fortunes,’’ he said.



He said Nigeria had moved up in the global market by 24 points in the ease of doing business index for 2018 in a recent report released by World Bank.



He said Nigeria was also ranked as one of the 10 most improved economies in the world.



Mr. Fayemi said 75 staff had been trained on GIS across the mining sector.



He said that operation of online application of mining title and licences issued by Nigerian Mining Cadastre Office, online application of licences and permit issued by Mines Inspectorate Department and GIS laboratory, among others, would commence in the first quarter of 2018.



Abubakar Bwari, Minister for State, Mines and Steel Development, said the integrated web portal was conceived as a means of making information more accessible to players and the public alike.



Mr. Bwari said the initiative was to revamp the sector, as the ministry was moribund before himself and the senior minister assumed the sector.



According to him, government is a continuum and as long as subsequent administrations keep to track, mining will become the crown jewel of Nigeria’s economy.


Mohammed Abbas, Permanent Secretary of the ministry, sought the support of the Ministry of Communication to assist with experts that would manage the portal effectively.


The ministers of communication, science and technology were represented at the event.


The Women in Mining and Miners Association of Nigeria also witnessed the event.

Mohammed Abbas, Permanent Secretary of the ministry, sought the support of the Ministry of Communication to assist with experts that would manage the portal effectively.

ivandragon:
in order words, you have spent the money budgeted for website in 2016...


lol...


well, I trust the pmb's online support thugs to provide justification for this...

Throwback:


Illiterates should only speak on basic topics that can be argued at a beer parlour.

Spending $2m on a portal depending on what the complexities of it are and what level of integrated database is required, is not a child's play.

The ministry has itself revealed this information freely to the public, to prevent the likes of you from making a mockery of serious business initiatives as some scandal that has been exposed.

ivandragon:
supporters of corruption coming out in all their glory... lol...


they haven't even gone to see the website before defending it...

ivandragon:



keep quite & stop being an ignoramus...

have you visited the website to see if it justifies that amount?


have you forgotten that there was an uproar when this amount was said to have been budgeted for website in 2016? so why won't it boldly come out to say so when it had been padded ab initio... same way the $25b NNPC will be defended by the likes of you when they tell Nigerians that they have executed $25b in thin air...


you just keep jumping up & down to defend rubbish simply because it is your preferred thieves doing the looting...

Throwback:


Illiterates should only speak on basic topics that can be argued at a beer parlour.

Spending $2m on a portal depending on what the complexities of it are and what level of integrated database is required, is not a child's play.

The ministry has itself revealed this information freely to the public, to prevent the likes of you from making a mockery of serious business initiatives as some scandal that has been exposed.

GavelSlam:


If you are not illiterate please refrain from practising it.

Throwback:


Illiterates should only speak on basic topics that can be argued at a beer parlour.

Spending $2m on a portal depending on what the complexities of it are and what level of integrated database is required, is not a child's play.

The ministry has itself revealed this information freely to the public, to prevent the likes of you from making a mockery of serious business initiatives as some scandal that has been exposed.

Nbote:


So U don't see nothing wrong in spending 700m of oyel money in developing d website of mines and steel and dey are even seeking for experts frim Ministry of Communications to help manage d same website

clevadani:

That's bs. I am a fullstack developer and that amount is outrageous no matter the complexities involved in the development of the portal.

I am also a supporter of this current govt, but let's stop deceiving ourselves and say the truth at all times. Only then can we progress as a nation.

Throwback:


You are still not tired of this your imagined $25b that is missing at NNPC ?

Yet when asked to mention any stakeholder who claimed such funds are missing, or that ghost contracts were awarded, you suddenly go dumb? The case of contracts erroneously totalled to the sum of $25b, has already be addressed by NNPC over the charge of not following due process. A due process they have maintained did not require the approval of the stakeholder who made the charge, but who never alleged that money was missing or that the contracts were phantom and did not exist.

You do not always have to be a blind critic of government. Criticize as if you have a brain for Christ sake.

Throwback:


And you have come out in all your shame.

A switch already damaged in the default position of blind criticism.

Too many illiterates online.

ivandragon:



are you really this dull or are you just hiding behind that to defend your preferred thieves?


Ibe cleared stated it that the contracts didn't pass through due process where paddings & other fraudulent acts could have been checked & filtered out.


the person that signed it, if true, doesn't know jack about technicalities involved. & if he truly did sign, where are the documents to back it up?

back to the topic jare...


have you even gone to check out the website?

do you know that some of the links lead nowhere?


you just keep talking out of your ass...

BeeBeeOoh:
700 what




Please, how much does ticket to south Sudan cost??

Throwback:


And for Ibe, due process was to be through him as Chairman of NNPC board?

And NNPC has come out with enough facts to show that the NNPC tenders board, Minister or Petroleum and FEC are all that was required to constitute Due Process as it is currently existing.

Ibe Kachikwu is not the minister of petroluem but junior minister, while Buhari is the minister. Ibe Kachikwu is not the head of the NNPC tenders board but head of NNPC board. Ibe Kachikwu was present in the FEC meetings as a junior minister when these contracts were presented.

So what else to you have to say?


Ibe Kachikwu has also come out to clarify matters for unrepentant and aimless critics like yourself, that he did not allege that money was missing or that the contracts did not truly exist.

Him and Baru have since moved on over their misunderstanding, with both sides of the debate agreeing to differ. While sane observers like us hace urged Buhari to surrender the full minister portfolio to Ibe Kachikwu to prevent such re-occurence of allegations of breech in due processes and posible loopholes that Kachikwu has identified in the current process which still remains legal.


As for the website, even the reports already mentioned that experts are required to manage it. So you should already know it is yet to be operational. It is there already for you to understand without the need of your tasteless and aimless attempt to mockery.

Throwback:


You remind me of a dude

Throwback:


I do not see any problem with spending money to develop another revenue generating sector of our economy.

Must we always criticise every money spent, even when spent appropriately and to generate more income?

I have already highlighted the need for trained experts that the ministry has already alluded to.

Nbote:


There is a whole lot wrong with it my broda.. 700million on a website for a ministry dat hasn't done Jack in improving its plight is a 100 steps in d wrong direction.. There are a whole lot bedeviling d ministry than what their website shld look like. Dat sector has been comatose for years now and U and I know dat. Let's call a spade a spade

Throwback:


The purpose of the website is to address some of the problems that has made that ministry moribund.

ivandragon:
some people prefer Nigeria to remain stagnated as long as their preferred thieves have the right of way...


to move forward, we must question irrational decisions of our leaders at all times, regardless of who is in power at any point in time... only then is objectivity achieved & we are able to really define what we want & the direction we need to go as a country...


but of course, there will always be nitwits who want to draw us back

Nbote:


Oh lawd!! I give up. D purpose is to address some of d problems dat made d ministry moribund? Are u for real?