Jul

14

2024

ENGR. FREDERICK ENI EWA DIRECTOR METALLURGICAL INSPECTORATE

ENGR. FREDERICK ENI EWA (DIRECTOR METALLURGICAL INSPECTORATE)

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND: Engr. Frederick Eni Ewa is a professional mining engineer of immense standing, certified by the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), and a member of several professional bodies including the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and the Nigerian Society of Mining Engineers (NSME). With a Bachelor of Engineering in Mining from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Engr. Ewa has excelled in his career, spanning over three decades of dedicated service in the mining and metallurgical sectors of Nigeria. 

RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS: Currently, as Director of the Metallurgical Inspectorate Department at the Ministry of Steel Development, he continues to influence national policies and projects that shape the future of our nation’s mineral resources. His leadership, technical expertise, and commitment have also seen him contribute immensely to the growth and development of metal sector. With the support of the Principals of the Ministry under his leadership, the Metallurgical Inspectorate Department is contributing to the regulation of the Metals industry in Nigeria, championing the setting up of centralized scrap metal collation centres as well as the Boot Camp training of Nigerian Youths.

About the Department

The Metallurgical Raw Materials Development & Investment Promotion (MRMD&IP) Department is charged with the responsibility of the development, management, promotion, and strategic planning of metallurgical raw materials for the steel industry.

Objectives
⦁    Metallurgical Raw Materials Development
⦁    Raw Materials Data
⦁    Investment, Trade, and Promotion of Metallurgical Raw Materials

Roles & Responsibilities
⦁    Sustainable development of mineral raw materials for metallurgical industry;
⦁    Monitors the quality of refractories, foundries and metallurgical mineral raw materials input into production processes
⦁    Ensures environmental protection matters in the aspect of Metallurgical raw materials development
⦁    Promotion and advancing the concept of sustainable development of minerals and metals
⦁    Maintenance of Facility and Plants
⦁    Establishing a Metallurgical raw materials data bank
⦁    Funding and carrying out research in connection with metals or anything derived therefrom and promoting activities
⦁    Provision of specifications of raw materials input and advise operators via workshops on local sources capable of meeting their specification in fulfillment of the primary objectives of import substitution
⦁    Sourcing for local raw materials for metallurgical plants and foundries
⦁    Ensure that exclusive titles over minerals raw material occurrence/deposits are given to the exploration/mining agencies serving the integrated steel plants and foundries
⦁    Supervise National Steel Raw Materials Exploration Agency, Kaduna, National Metallurgical Development Centre, Jos and National Iron Ore Mining Company, Itapke
⦁    Coordinating the activities of metal scraps agents outside the steel plants around the country; and
⦁    Encourage investment in the Nigeria Free Trade Areas such as the export processing zones and promote rules that would protect international investment

Our Projects
⦁    Advocacy for the development of metallurgical materials clusters in the country
⦁    Development and maintenance of the Nation’s metallurgical databank.
⦁    Implementation of government policy on local value chain addition of metallurgical raw materials.
⦁    Identifying and development of SMEs in the metallurgical industry.
⦁    Promotion of metallurgical raw materials.
⦁    Facilitate metallurgical raw materials development i.e scrap metals

Jul

12

2024

METALLURGICAL RAW MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT & INVERSTMENT PROMOTION

ORGANOGRAM METALLURGICAL INSPECTORATE