Geology and Mineral Resources of Nigeria

GEOLOGY - IGNEOUS AND METAMORPHIC ROCKS.- The Basement Complex.- The Younger Granites.- GEOLOGY - SEDIMENTARY BASINS.- Cretaceous - Cenozoic Magmatism and Volcanism.- The Benue Trough.- The Bornu Basin (Nigerian Sector of the Chad Basin).- The Sokoto Basin (Nigerian Sector of the Iullemmeden Basin).- The Mid-Niger (Bida) Basin.- The Dahomey Basin.- MINERAL RESOURCES.- The Niger Delta Basin.- Solid Mineral Resources.- Petroleum Resources.- Policy Issues and Development Options.

Nuhu Obaje is currently Professor of Geology at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria. He was formerly the Dean of the Faculty of Natural & Applied Sciences and the Head of the Department of Geology & Mining (Jan. 2004 - April 2008). He is a member of the Governing Council of the institution. As Dean of the Faculty of Natural & Applied Sciences, he supervised the accreditation of all the courses in the Faculty and was instrumental to several collaborations and university-industry partnerships.



Professor Obaje was selected by the Alfried Krupp Foundation in 2007 as one of five Senior Research Scientists selected on a world-wide competition for scientists who have made significant contributions to scientific research in their specialized fields to spend time at the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Studies in Greifswald, Germany to complete a selected major research work.



Professor Obaje was born on the 15th December 1961 at Ajaka in Igalamela Local Government Area of Kogi State (Nigeria). He attended Barewa College Zaria in the period from 1974 to 1979 and obtained the West African School Certificate (WASC/GCE) in Division One in June 1979. He later graduated B.Sc. (2nd Class Upper Division) and M.Sc. Geology from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1984 and 1987 respectively; and the Ph.D. Geology from the University of Tuebingen (Germany) in 1994.



Professor Obaje was later awarded the Royal Society of London postdoctoral fellowship in petroleum geochemistry at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland in 1997; the German Academic Exchange Service (re-invitation) postdoctoral fellowship in biostratigraphy at the University of Tuebingen in 1998; and the Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship in organic geochemistry and organic petrology at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources in Hanover/Germany in 2002-2003. (for one year) and 2005 - 2006(for 3 months). Professor