3 - 4 September 2009

Sheraton Perth Hotel, WA

Hon. Chief Sarafa Tunji Isola
Minister of Mines and Steel Development
Government of Nigeria

The Hon. Chief Sarafa Tunji Isola was appointed to the position of Minister of Mines and Steel Development in 2007.

Having graduated from the Chartered Institute of Marketing in Britain, he returned home to Nigeria, spending three years as a lecturer in Business Statistics, Marketing and Economics at the Federal College of Education in Katsina before stints with the Ogun State Broadcasting Corporation and his own company, Taist Nigeria Ltd.

In 1997 Chief Isola was elected chairman of Abeokuta North Local Government of Ogun state and two years later was appointed special assistant to the Minister of Finance. In 2003 he became Secretary to Ogun State Government.

He is keen to turn around the fortune of the solid minerals sector permanently in Nigeria by putting in place enduring institutional and legislative frameworks necessary for the orderly and sustainable development of the sector.