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Journal of Mining and Geosciences
50 YEARS OF NMGS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITIONS
An Enduring souvenir, 50 Years of NMGS International Conferences and
Exhibitions is packaged as an update to complement the preceding book,
30 Years of N.M.G.S. written during the NMGS Presidency of Chief
Chamberlain Oyibo, some twenty-two years ago in 1991 and published by
the NMGS Council in 1991. Read more
For any organization, the attainment of the landmark age of 50 is a feat
worth celebrating! The Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society (NMGS)
is now more than half a century old and this signifies that the Society
has come of age. Conceived on January 15, 1961 by eight Mining
Engineers, a single Geologist and a single Metallurgist on December 17,
1962 at the university town of Nsukka in present day Enugu State, the
Society was officially inaugurated with the Rt. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe,
the Governor-General of Nigeria at the time as the First Patron of the
Society. Since then, all Heads of State and Presidents of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria have been Grand Patrons of this great Society.
Over the last Fifty-Two years of its existence, NMGS has held
Forty-Nine International Conferences up till 2013. The NMGS
International Conference and Exhibitions which held in Benin from the
16th to the 22nd of March, 2014 was the Fiftieth (50th) of such
Conferences and Exhibitions of the Society.
To commemorate this Golden Event, the 27th President of the Nigerian
Mining and Geosciences Society, Sir (Professor) S.C. Teme fnmgs during
his inauguration on the 29th of June, 2013 at the Banquet Hall of the
Hotel Presidential, Port Harcourt, directed that a Commemorative Book
highlighting historical perspectives of the Society’s activities, its
institutions, and members’ landmark achievements in the “Professions”
within these fifty years of its International conferences and
Exhibitions be packaged by the Society. An Editorial Committee
subsequently set up to accomplish this task consisted of the following
persons:
Dr. Paul Ogunleye Chairman General Secretary
Professor O.L. Anike Member Assistant General Secretary
Dr. Martins Eduvie Secretary Editor-in-Chief (JMG)
Dr. Asiwaju Bello Member Publicity Secretary
Dr. Saidu Baba Member Vice-President
Dr. Gbenga Okunola Member Ex-Officio
An Enduring souvenir, 50 Years of NMGS International Conferences and
Exhibitions is packaged as an update to complement the preceding book,
30 Years of N.M.G.S. written during the NMGS Presidency of Chief
Chamberlain Oyibo, some twenty-two years ago in 1991 and published by
the NMGS Council in 1991.
The compendium features a significant event in our time, the advent
of the revitalized Council of Nigerian Mining Engineers and
Geoscientists (COMEG); a Regulatory Body for the practice of Mining and
Geosciences in Nigeria. Currently under the Chairmanship of Chief
Chamberlain Oyibo, COMEG has re-awakened the consciousness of all Mining
Engineers and Geoscientists in Nigeria to their responsibilities and
the ethics of the professions; be they the industries, public services,
private practices and in the academia. This has had the band-wagon
effect of drastically increasing the membership of NMGS and has
triggered an upsurge in the registration of NMGS members with the COMEG
especially with the introduction of the slogan “No COMEG Number No
Practice”.
It is also noteworthy that for the first time in the Society’s
existence, all the Sister Associations of the NMGS namely: the
Association of Hydrogeologists (NAH), the Nigerian Society of Mining
Engineers (NSME), the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), the Nigerian
Metallurgical Society (NMS), the Nigerian Association of Petroleum
Explorationists (NAPE) have come under one umbrella as “one big family”.
Each of the Presidents of these Associations/Societies are now members
of the Council of the NMGS and are duly invited to all NMGS Council
Meetings.
The work contained in this book as compiled by the Editorial Board
include, but not limited to: the Minutes of the five Council meetings
per year, Minutes of the Annual General Meetings (AGM), Annual Reports
of the General Secretaries and Presidents (as the case may be), the
assemblage of Executive, Committee and Special Activity Reports – all of
which form the life wire of all international Societies worldwide.
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