The Managing Director and Chief executive officer Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, Prof. Nasir Naeem Abdulsalam, has been appointed the NLNG Professorial Chair in Geoscience and Satellite Intelligence for the Resilience of Gas Infrastructure along the Ajaokuta – Kaduna – Kano (AKK) Corridor, for a five-year tenure. The appointment ceremony took place at the NLNG cooperate headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The research focus underscores the importance of geoscientific research, satellite intelligence and technological innovation in strengthening critical gas infrastructure and supporting Nigeria’s energy security. This recognition highlights the value of connecting academic research with practical industry needs and developing indigenous solutions to national development challenges.
Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited congratulates Prof. N.N. Abdulsalam on this distinguished appointment and wishes him a successful and impactful five-year tenure.
Ajaokuta Steel Project is located on 24,000 hectares of sprawling green-field land-mass. The Steel Plant itself is built on 800-hectares of land. The chosen Technology for Steel Production is the time tested Blast-Furnace – Basic Oxygen Furnace route for Steel Production.
The Ajaokuta integrated steel complex was conceived and steadily developed with the vision of erecting a Metallurgical Process Plant cum Engineering Complex with other auxiliaries and facilities. The complex is meant to be used to generate important upstream and downstream industrial and economic activities that are critical to the diversification of our economy into an industrial one. Ajaokuta Steel Plant is therefore aptly tagged as the “Bedrock of Nigeria’s industrialization”.