Management Team

Mr. Henry Dele Alake

(MINISTER OF SOLID MINERALS)

Henry Dele Alake is a Nigerian journalist, activist and technocrat who is the current Nigerian minister of Solid Minerals. He is a former commissioner for Information and Strategy of Lagos State serving from 1999 to 2007.

Alake got involved in active politics in Nigeria as the communication advisor and confidant of Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola[2] - the winner of the annulled June 12 presidential election in Nigeria in 1993.[3] In December 2014, Dele Alake resurfaced in national politics in Nigeria through his appointment as the director of Media and Communication of the Buhari Campaign Organisation to help Nigeria's former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari to victory in the presidential election in Nigeria in February 2015.

Engr. Obadiah Simon Nkom

(DIRECTOR GENERAL)

Engr. Obadiah Simon Nkom was appointed the Director – General of the Nigeria Mining Cadastre, an Agency under the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development in January, 2019 and reappointed for a second term in January, 2023. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Mining Engineering from Federal University of Technology, Akure in addition to various other qualifications which include an MBA and PGD in Management from University of Maiduguri, HND in Mining Engineering from Kaduna Polytechnic, Certificates in Geo-database, Geographical Information System, both from Houston, USA, Spatial Data Handling, Netherlands, Public Administration, Maiduguri, Mining and Metallurgy, MINETEC, Japan and he also obtained a certificate in Japanese Language.

He was appointed into the Federal Civil Service in the year 1983 where he rose to the rank of Director in the Nigeria Mining Cadastre Office, Abuja. He pioneered and contributed immensely to the establishment of new Mines Offices in Borno, Yobe, Nasarawa and FCT between 1985 and 2005.