Buhari, Heritage Bank, Zamfara State, Others Hold Discussion On Boosting Solid Mineral Development

President Muhammadu Buhari (4^th right) with Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Muhammad Matawalle (3^rd right); Minister of Solid Minerals, Arc. Olamilekan Adegbite (3^rd left); President/CEO AfreximBank, Prof. Benedict Oramah (4^th left); MD/CEO Heritage Bank Plc, Dr Ifie Sekibo (2^nd right); Managing Director, Intra-African Trade Initiative, AfreximBank, Mrs. Kanayo Awani (left); Zamfara State Official, Alhaji Bashir Hadejia (2^nd left) and Managing Director,  Pan African Capital, Mr. Chris Oshiafi, during a meeting to brief President Buhari on the Afreximbank cooperation with Zamfara State for Solid Mineral development put together by Heritage Bank and PAC, in Sochi, Russial, weekend. 

In a bid to boost the nation’s economic growth, Heritage, Zamfara State Government and the Pan African Capital, at the just concluded Russian-African Summit in Sochi, Russia, held a meeting to brief President Muhammad  Buhari on the African Export Import Bank cooperation with Zamfara on solid minerals development put together by the two aforementioned financial institutions.

This is coming on the heels of the signing of $1bn Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the areas of mining, agriculture, water resources and others, between Afreximbank and Zamfara, which Heritage Bank is the banker to the project.