Dr Abdulrazaq Garba is the Director General of the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency (NGSA).
With a career spanning more than 30 years in the industry and specialization in mineral
exploration, assessment and targeting, he has made contributions and efforts leading to a
number of mineral discoveries. He supervised and coordinated the recently concluded National
Integrated Mineral Exploration Project (NIMEP), which was an effort of the Government of
Nigeria to rapidly derisk the mining space along some identified metallogenic belts. He has been
actively involved in geological activities that have evolved into key publications and projects. Dr.
Garba is a member of several societies and also a Fellow of the Geological Society of London
and the Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society, Fellow National Association for Engineering
Geology and the Environment, Fellow Geoinformation Society of Nigeria. He is currently the
President, Nigerian Society of Economic Geologists.