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Raw Materials Council Plans Minerals Testing Centres
The Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) is set to establish minerals testing centres in Nigeria, Prof. Peter Onwualu, the Director General of the council said on Wednesday in Abuja.
Onwualu made this known in Abuja when he led a team of management staff on a courtesy visit to the new Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, Mrs Rabi Jimeta.
While briefing the new Permanent Secretary on the activities of the council, he said that the council would establish the testing centres so that new and existing minerals could be tested to ascertain their viability.
According to him, there are no proper minerals testing centres in the country at present and such centres will make mineral testing more efficient and less time and capital intensive.
He added that the council had produced technical prints that would provide information on the availability and potentiality, available technology, location of the minerals and how to process them.
The council, he said, was embarking on the technical prints in collaboration with the Geological Survey Institute of Nigeria,
The Director-General said that the council was now set to go ahead and establish mineral testing centres in Nigeria.
“This is a new project we are working on. We have done all the designs and a group in Korea has promised to bring all the equipment for the testing centres.
“These centres will be on commercial basis so that people can come in and pay to test their minerals,” he said.
Highlighting other projects of the council, Onwualu said that plans had already been concluded for the establishment of a fruit juice concentrates plant before the end of 2012.
He said plans were also underway for the establishment of a plastic recycling plant and the production of laboratory chemicals for secondary schools which could save the country about N480 million annually.
Onwualu said the council was also building the capacity of Nigerians in the area of process equipment plant and designs, while aiming at commercialising research and development results.
Other projects include the cluster development project, which is looking at developing business clusters in all the wards in Nigeria.
It will also aid the promotion of investments in resource-based industries and will encourage research.
The Director-General also said that the council planned to review its laws “so as to have more of a biting role rather than a barking role in terms of importation of raw materials that are locally available”.
“We noticed some flaws and we worked with stakeholders especially manufacturers and we have come up with a few modifications of the law, which had been submitted to the Ministry of Justice.
Responding, Jimeta commended the council for the projects and activities it had embarked on so far.
She pledged the council’s support to the agency and called on the agency not to hesitate to forward any challenges it might have to the ministry for assistance.
“I will take my time to study the council’s activities so that we can strategise on how to move the council and the ministry to greater heights.”
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