and Príncipe. Finally and significantly, he was responsible for the supervision of the joint services organisations and parastatals, such as the Nigerian Defence Academy, Armed Forces Command and Staff College, National War College, Defence Industry Corporation of Nigeria (DICON), Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement centre (NAFRC), and the Tafawa Balewa Square Investment Limited. Supervising Minister for Mines and Steel Development (2008–2008) Seriki had a short but remarkable stint holding this portfolio. He undertook various national initiatives through his supervision of the privatization of federal government enterprises in the solid minerals, steel, and aluminium industries. He advised the federal government on key matters relating to policy formulation and implementation to realize set growth indices in such industries. Seriki oversaw activities of Nigerian parastatals such as the Geological Surveys Agency of Nigeria, the Nigerian coal corporation joint venture Enugu, the National steel and raw materials agency Kaduna, the national metallurgical development centre Jos, the metallurgical training institute Onitsha, Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, and the National Iron Ore Mining Company Limited. He was also key to ratifying the decisions of the Ministerial Tenders Board and the Procurement Planning Committee. Minister of State for Agriculture and Water Resources (2007–2008) During this, Seriki's first appointment to national service, he worked alongside the minister in setting out policies on the agriculture and water resources needed to galvanise the employment, industrial, and social development of this sector of the Nigerian economy. He helped focus on the development and review of the National Water Resources Master Plan and also helped oversee ministerial activities in cash food crop production; livestock, fishery, agricultural research; agricultural disease control; agricultural statistics; strategic food reserve; and the distribution of essential inputs schedules within the ministry. Under his watch he ensured the aggressive implementation of the national policies and water resources development and distribution through irrigation dams, underground water supply, and water resources research and statistics programmes. He coordinated bilateral relations with governments on water resources and supervised activities of the river basin development authorities and the National Water Resources Institute. He was also elected the chairman of the council of ministers of the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) in Niamey, Niger, in 2008. He was prominent as the country's spokesperson on agricultural sector engagements at regional and international levels. Other roles Seriki has had stints in federal ministerial positions in the interest of Nigeria's national development. In collaboration with the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria major