Zamfara Women Celebrate Shinkafi Over NSEG Fellowship

A women’s pressure group, Women for Women International, Zamfara State Chapter, has congratulated the Executive Secretary of the Solid Minerals Development Fund (SMDF), Hajia Fatima Umaru-Shinkafi, on her conferment with the Honorary Fellowship of the Nigerian Society of Economic Geologists (NSEG).
In a congratulatory statement, the group linked the recognition to Shinkafi’s role in initiatives to address funding and technical challenges in Nigeria’s solid minerals sector.
It cited the SMDF-EMERGE Initiative and the proposed $1.3 billion investment agreement involving the Federal Government and the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) for an alumina refinery and nationwide mineral explora...