{"id":64247,"date":"2025-04-14T16:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64247"},"modified":"2025-04-14T16:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:03:29","slug":"abuja-to-host-landmark-african-raw-materials-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/14\/abuja-to-host-landmark-african-raw-materials-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja to Host Landmark African Raw Materials Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is poised to take centre stage in advancing Africa&#8217;s industrial future as the Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) prepares to host the African Raw Materials Summit in Abuja from May twenty to May twenty two, twenty twenty five.<\/p>\n<p>The highly anticipated summit is expected to bring together policymakers, investors, industry leaders, and experts from across the continent and beyond to explore strategies for unlocking Africa&#8217;s vast raw materials potential.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the development, Director General and Chief Executive Officer of RMRDC, Professor Nnanyelugo Ike Muonso, underscored the significance of the summit in driving sustainable industrial growth through value addition to raw materials. He made the remarks during a special event at the thirty sixth Enugu International Trade Fair, delivered on his behalf by Alhaji Umar Mukthar, Deputy Director for Research and Development Commercialisation at the council.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Ike Muonso extended an open invitation to stakeholders at the fair, urging them to seize the opportunity to connect with RMRDC representatives and explore avenues for meaningful collaboration, investment, and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This summit is a crucial platform for advancing the industrialisation of Africa through strategic development of our raw materials,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The summit promises to be a milestone gathering, as participants will delve into actionable pathways for transforming raw materials into economic prosperity, ultimately bolstering Nigeria&#8217;s and Africa\u2019s pursuit of sustainable development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Nigeria is poised to take centre stage in advancing Africa&#8217;s industrial future as the Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) prepares to host the African Raw Materials Summit in Abuja from May twenty to May twenty two, twenty twenty five. The highly anticipated summit is expected to bring together policymakers, investors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":64248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64249,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64247\/revisions\/64249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}