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  • Aliko Dangote’s parting words to daughter

    IT is no longer news that Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, literarily shut down Lagos as he rounded off the wedding of his daughter, Fatima, to Jamil, the pilot son of former Inspector-General of Police, M.D Abubakar.

    The wedding which kicked off with a series of elaborate celebrations over the past week had top dignitaries including American business magnate and principal founder of the Microsoft Corporation, Bill Gates,  and wife, Melinda, in attendance.

    Well, the event has come and gone, the billionaire cum philanthropist’s parting words to the bride remain evergreen in the video he shot congratulating and wishing his daughter well in her marriage, which left many with misty eyes . “Fatima, my baby, my youngest, my sweetheart, this is a bittersweet time for any parent. I watched you blossom into an excellent representation of what I call my values; you are indeed pure to them. I trained you to take on any kind of weight on your shoulders and also to be bold and respectful.”

    Dangote further said: “Jamil has been a son to me even before I realised he had gone inside my garden to pluck my Juliet rose. I am here anytime you need me and I love you unconditionally. I have done enough homework to know that Jamil will always respect the ground you walk on. Good luck on this new journey, my baby. The time has come. Be loved, be very happy and I love you very, very dearly.”

  • Immunization: CHR urges rich Nigerians to emulate Gates, Dangote

    The Community Health and Research Initiative (CHR), a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) has urged rich Nigerians to emulate the Mr. Bill Gates and Alhaji Aliko Dangote in supporting Primary Health Care in the country.

    The duo recently signed a MoU with six states on sustainable funding for Routine Immunization (RI) and child health in Nigeria.

    The benefitting states are Kano, Kaduna, Yobe, Borno, Sokoto and Bauchi.

    CHR in a statement signed by its Director, Salisu Musa Muhammad, and made available to the media in Abuja said “We are also calling on other similarly rich Nigerians particularly those from the northern region to emulate Alhaji Dangote by also committing their resources to the development child and primary healthcare in the northern region, which has the poorest child health indices in the country” urged the statement.

    Read Also: Bill Gates, Dangote visit polio Centre in Abuja

    “We believe the likes of Alhaji Aminu Dantata, Alhaji Abdulmunaf Sarina (owner of Azman Air); Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu (owner of BUA Group) as well as Alhaji Auwalu Abdullahi (owner of AA Rano Group) are all well-placed to also contribute their quota to the quest to end child and maternal mortality in northern Nigeria. We are of the opinion that by also committing their resources to this initiative, they will not only be saving lives but also discharging their corporate social responsibility (CSR) to Nigerians.”

    Commending the duo for their support, CHR stated, “We particularly wish to commend the personal commitment they have shown to improving child healthcare in Nigeria which could be seen in the fact that they always personally participate in the mid-and-end of year review meetings of the situation of child and primary healthcare in the states of their intervention, despite their obviously very busy schedules. We believe the commitment the duo has demonstrated improved immunization services in the country is but second to none.”

    The Non-Governmental Organization also called on the governors of the 6 respective states that have signed the MoU extension with the Gates Foundation and Dangote Foundation “to remain committed of the MoU by ensuring timely payment and release of their counterpart funding adding that “doing so would be their way of encouraging the exceptionally magnanimous gestures of Mr Gates and Alhaji Dangote to the millions of children that would benefit from the RI interventions.”

    Since 2013, the duo of Mr Gates and Alhaji Dangote has been actively supporting efforts targeted at achieving sustainable funding for RI and eradication of polio virus out of Nigeria

     

  • USAID partners Sokoto, Bauchi on primary health care

    The United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) has signed two agreements with Bauchi, Sokoto States and other stakeholders to expand access to quality, affordable health care in the two states.

    A statement by the U.S. Embassy on Monday in Abuja explained that the agreements were aimed at boosting access to quality Primary Health Care services in the two states.

    “USAID Mission Director, Stephen Haykin, joined the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’adu Abubakar, Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, philanthropists Bill Gates and Aliko Dangote, and governors of Bauchi and Sokoto states by video teleconference to sign the two agreements.

    “Under the four-year addenda to improve routine immunisation and expansion of funding for the Primary Health Care.

    “USAID will provide technical assistance to the Bauchi and Sokoto States Primary Health Care Development agencies to help expand access to routine immunisations and primary health care.

    “While UNICEF will partner with the Gates and Dangote foundations to match the states’ investments in the sectors,’’ the US embassy stated.

    The embassy explained that in return, the Bauchi and Sokoto Governments agreed to earmark 1.8 million dollars to invest in routine immunisation and primary health care in 2018.

    “Under the agreements, both states will incrementally raise their funding contributions in these sectors to become self-sufficient by 2022’’.

    Haykin described the agreements as “new stage” in USAID’s partnerships with Bauchi and Sokoto states, which would adapt its health programming to the needs of the states to help extend life-saving treatment to millions across Nigeria.

    “I applaud the governors’ efforts to improve public health care service delivery in their states, and strongly encourage them to continue working towards optimising their state’s capacity to deliver quality, affordable health services to their constituents,” Haykin said.

    After the ceremony, Gates said, “Vaccinations are phenomenal in their impact because a child that has not been vaccinated is twice likely to die. We can prevent millions of deaths through routine immunisation”.

    NAN

  • Bill Gates, Dangote visit polio Centre in Abuja

    Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Aliko Dangote on Thursday visited the Emergency Operations Centre for polio in Abuja.

    Both billionaires have played a significant role in the fight to eliminate polio in Nigeria.

    Gates, whose foundation has invested more than $1.6billion in Nigeria to date, is in the country to see first-hand the progress the country is making on primary healthcare provision, polio eradication, nutrition and financial inclusion.

    They are expected to meet with government officials, and civil society and private sector stakeholders in Abuja and Lagos for talks to “finish the job of polio eradication” and keep the virus away from Nigeria’s children.

    The EOC is central to coordinating long-running campaign to eradication polio from Nigeria—and has been active since polio emerged in 2016 in areas of Borno military forces reclaimed from Boko Haram terrorists.

    Both billionaires held talks with the executive director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Faisal Shuaib.

    “The only places in Nigeria where we have wild polio virus potentially circulating is in Borno,” Shuaib told Daily Trust after the talks which lasted an hour.

    “We still have some local government areas [like] Bama, Ngala, Damboa where we have not had unfettered access to kids, and our concern is that unless these kids are vaccinated, there is always the potential that they could be harbouring wild polio virus.”

    The 2016 discovery of polio virus among children born in communities under Boko Haram control and unvaccinated their entire life set back Nigeria’s progress to be polio free.

    The federal government released N9.8 billion in funding to ensure the outbreak was contained.

    “All of that funding, all of the work that went into containing that outbreak will go to naught unless we are able to finish the job in Borno,” said Shuaib.

    The meeting also covered a post-polio Nigeria—what to do with the EOC, lessons learnt from polio eradication, and how to apply the “central command” strategy for polio control to other public health diseases.

    Shuaib said the lessons are helping strengthen primary health care, following the launch of the Community Health Influencers and Promoters Service (CHIPS).

    It came almost a year after the start of the Primary Health Care Revitalisation programme—with a target to have make functional some 10,000 primary health centres nationwide.

    President Buhari launched the service in February during a state visit to Nasarawa and has mandated it be rolled out nationwide.

     

  • Dangote, Adebutu: Championing Nigeria’s drive for optimum refining capacity

    “The only way to move Africa forward is for people like us to take very bold moves”, Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man said in an interview with Bloomberg, in August 2017. The interview dwelt extensively on his bid to deliver Nigeria’s first privately owned refinery in 2019, the largest single train petroleum refinery in the world with a production capacity of about 650,000 barrels per day (bpd).

    Towards the end of 2017, Nigerian business mogul and philanthropist, Segun Adebutu, made a similarly bold move. He revealed his plan to build a 250,000bpd refinery by 2022. Adebutu made this public at the commissioning of the first phase of projects at Petrolex Mega Oil City, Ibefun-Ogun State, where the refinery will be built. An energy city that already houses a 300 million-litre tank farm (sub-Saharan Africa’s largest petroleum bulk storage facility) and in a couple of years, will become the largest petrochemical hub in the region.

    Aliko Dangote heads Dangote Group, the most diversified manufacturing conglomerate in Africa, while Segun Adebutu sits atop Petrolex Oil and Gas Limited. With their combined effort, they are being looked upon as the messiahs of Nigeria’s oil and gas sector; the men who will spur the growth of the refining sector and save the country from its huge dependence on importation of fuel, which continually strains the economy.

    Despite being one of the largest crude oil producers in the world, Nigeria’s four government owned refinery, with a combined capacity of 445,000 barrels per day are barely able to function at 20 percent capacity. Years of neglect and failure by successive governments to maintain and upgrade them in over two decades have left them beyond repair.

    According to recent figures revealed by the Minister of state for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Nigeria allocates an average of $28 billion of its foreign exchange earnings yearly to import about 92 per cent of the petrol consumed locally.

    The importation has created huge burden on the government, especially because of the price disparity that often occurs in the landing cost of petrol and government approved sales price. The attendant margin, also known as subsidy, has been fully borne by the government, consuming huge chunks of the yearly budget and creating wealth for corrupt individuals who present fictitious import figures.

    Intermittently, the nation has also consistently suffered from fuel scarcity which cripple economic activities and make life hard for the masses.
    Nigerian government earnestly waits on private sector players like Dangote and more recently, Adebutu to come to the rescue, after several failed attempts to ramp up production from state-owned refineries. The government, battling shortage and pressure caused by subsidy controversy in the past few months, has run out of options on how to create stability in the sector without going back to fund fraudulent subsidy claims.

    While Dangote’s 650,000 bpd refinery has been heralded as a crucial development, Adebutu’s 250,000bpd refinery which is also in the pipeline signals Nigeria’s strong drive not just to break from the jinx of importation, but to occupy a leading position as net exporter within or beyond the West African region in the next couple of years.
    “We have actually never failed in delivering any project…. This is my lifetime project. I have to back it up with my own life to make sure it is delivered. I know that, yes, it’s true, a lot of people have tried to deliver on refineries in the past, mostly governments. They couldn’t”. Dangote said, convinced that this time it will be different.
    Dangote has invested $5 billion into sugar, rice, and dairy production and now, in one breath, he is pouring $14billion into the construction of an oil refinery. It has been described as a big risk for a man who has never dealt in oil.

    Segun Adebutu said “I didn’t just wake up to this project; being in the sector for 14 good years, it was evident that something had to be done. Nobody is going to fix this country for us. We have no refinery working at optimum capacity in Nigeria despite being one of the largest oil producing countries in the world”.
    Apart from the need to help Nigeria achieve optimum refining capacity and save its import-reliant economy from complete collapse, Adebutu was spurred to embark on the project in a bid to decongest the Apapa axis in Lagos, which has become a nightmare and a ticking bomb because of the concentration of tank farms in the residential area.

    He figured that something must be done, and the most sustainable way was to have clusters outside the area, where products can be refined, stored and by-products passed to feedstock industries.

    His mega oil city, upon completion, is expected to cater for about 60 per cent of in-country fuel distribution needs. It will also create job opportunities to over 10,000 Nigerians directly and indirectly.
    Similarly, Dangote said his refinery will be creating about 4,000 direct and 145,000 indirect jobs…save over $7.5billion for Nigeria annually and generate an additional $5.5billion.

    David Oluwaseyi is a social commentator based in Abuja.

  • Dangote Foods ‘to make Nigeria self-sufficient in food production’

    Dangote Foods ‘to make Nigeria self-sufficient in food production’

    Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote has promised to make Nigeria self-sufficient in food production.

    He spoke in Lagos at the Awards for 77 customers of Dangote Foods, comprising of Dangote Flour Mills, Dangote Sugar Refinery and NASCON Allied Industries.

    At the award night held at the Expo Centre of Eko Hotel Victoria Island Lagos, 11 winners emerged from each of the geopolitical regions while the others were picked from the national category.

    A total of 23 distributors won awards from Dangote Sugar Refinery, 27 from Dangote Flour Mills and 27 from NASCON Allied Industries.

    Dangote said: We are firm believers in the vast economic potential of Nigeria. This has informed our desire to invest massively in some states across the country. Our target is to ensure that Nigeria becomes self-sufficient in all the sectors where we play.

    “We are gathered here in honour of our customers and distributors who have distinguished themselves in the distribution of our food products range and also to thank all the staff at DFM, NASCON and Dangote Sugar for their contribution.

    “We are a major player in the food sector where our business units; Dangote Flour Mills, Dangote Sugar Refinery and NASCON Allied Industries are clear leaders in their respective fields.”

    Giving an update on the strides of the Group in the food sector, Dangote stated, “in the Sugar sector, we developed a sugar backward integration project plan targeted at the production of 1.5MT/PA from various sites across Nigeria, in the next 10 years and we are acquiring about 150,000 hectares for sugar plantation in Adamawa, Taraba, Nasarawa, Kwara, Kogi and Niger States. We signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Nasarawa State Government for the construction of an integrated sugar complex located at Tunga.”

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    He envisaged that this will generate over 100,000 employment opportunities from all these sugar projects, saying that “we will establish integrated sugar mills within these locations, generate electricity, and produce animal feeds from bagasse and molasses.”

    For Dangote Flour Mills, he said, “we have a three-point growth plan, to focus on sustaining high product quality, improving customer engagement and strengthening supply chain capabilities.

    “We introduced new improved pasta product called ‘Excellente’ which comes with a new taste and in new packs. Our flour has remained the bakers’ choice and toast of many confectionary companies. We are currently conducting tests to evaluate the suitability of our soils in Nigeria in the cultivation of wheat.”

    Dangote stated that new investments in NASCON Allied Industries would boost efficiency and enhance better returns, saying “we are producing edible salt in several packages. We are also choice producers of industrial salts and planning to venture into the production of vegetable oil and tomatoes.

    He pointed out that the Group’s push for backward integration in providing its own raw materials on a massive scale has led to the planned investment of $4.6 billion over the next three years in sugar, rice and dairy production alone, noting that this will eliminate the country’s reliance on imported materials, and the foreign exchange headaches that comes with it.

    He further stated that the Group annual revenues exceeded $4.1 billion in 2017, saying that “our new projects include the world’s largest single train petroleum refinery, which is being built in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos at the cost of $12 billion will address Nigeria’s energy needs and eliminate importation of refined petroleum products.”

    Also, Director, Dangote Sugar Refinery, Ms. Bennedikter Molokwu in her welcome remarks on behalf of the three companies,  commended the distributors’ efforts  in making it possible for Dangote food products to be the preferred choice in all households.

    According to her, you have helped to create awareness for Dangote food products across the six geopolitical regions and has led to increased consumption of our products in the regions and better balance sheets for our food products’ companies.

    “We appreciate your commitment and promise that this partnership will remain mutually beneficial, with enduring values for all stakeholders. Your loyalty drives our business as we depend on you for prompt and frank feedback from consumers.”

     

  • Dangote donates N1.2b structure for Business School in Bayero University

    Dangote donates N1.2b structure for Business School in Bayero University

    The Business Schools being undertaken by the Aliko Dangote Foundation, according to the President of Dangote Group is part of the efforts to build entrepreneurship in the sub-consciousness of Nigerians through education at the highest level.

    In his avowed commitment to encouraging entrepreneurship in the country as a way out of the economic doldrums, Nigeria’s business magnate, Aliko Dangote, is donating another N1.2 billion structure for running of business school in Bayero University, Kano ( BUK ).

    The building which will be handed over to the university management formally next month is a state of the art edifice and will effectively mark the commencement of study of business in the institution and the first in the Northern part of Nigeria.

    It would be recalled that Dangote is also building a similar business school in the University of Ibadan and would be commissioned anytime soon.

    The Business Schools being undertaken by the Aliko Dangote Foundation, according to the President of Dangote Group it is part of the efforts to build entrepreneurship in the sub-consciousness of Nigerians through education at the highest level.

    He explained that the situation Nigeria has found itself necessitates revisiting school curriculums to reflect the new consciousness of entrepreneurship and manufacturing and efforts made to encourage study of business especially at the second level in the university.

    When visited, the building which has been completed and awaiting commissioning, is a modern Business School within the premises of Bayero University, Kano. It comprises of auditoriums, lecture theatres, offices, classes, library, and complete electrical fittings and cooling system, among others.

    Speaking on the gesture by Africa’s richest man, the BUK Dean of Faculty of Dangote Business School, Professor Murtala Sagagi said that there was no Business School in Bayero University, Kano (BUK) until Dangote started the project.

    “We have an ambition to have a business school and we could not go ahead with the project because there was no befitting structure to accommodate the kind of dream we had but with Dangote coming in about five years ago and that was when the University decided to say this is the time to have the business school,” he said.

    He noted that Kano is the second most vibrant commercial city in the country after Lagos, saying “we have industries, banks, different type of businesses, micro, small, medium and large enterprises.”

    “We are having large scale investors from China, Spain and all over the world coming to Kano to make investment and this means the State needs an institution, a kind of faculty, school that can able to develop the capacity not only the management of those organisation but those people who are working in different units or department within the organisation.”

    “Looking at the public sector, we have limited capacity in budget, project management, which has led to things not moving well in the country. With our unique disadvantage here in Northern Nigeria, the South is far ahead in terms of capacity level, for example there are about 20 universities in Ogun State, while in Kano State we have only three Universities and all of them owned either by the state government or federal government. It is just of recent we are getting private investors coming in.”

    Sagagi pointed out that all these show that there is a need for massive capacity building in Management, Finance, Marketing, E-Business, and particularly entrepreneurship and innovation in this part of the country and also for the entire country.

    He noted further that “Bayero University has a unique reputation in the whole country and this explains why in the last National Institution Accreditation exercise, BUK became the best University in the Country, not because we have the best of everything but because of the quality of our curriculum, faculty and most importantly the quality of the students.”

    The dean added that “the Dangote Business School is a great development and we hope that this business school will not only be seen as a Kano business school or Northern business school because I can tell you about 40 per cent of our students are not from Kano and more than 22 per cent of our student are from Southern part of the country.”

    He urged other eminent Nigerians with wealth to emulate Dangote and contribute to the education advancement of the nation as a way of boosting the country’s economic development pointing out that “if Nigeria is blessed with two of Alhaji Dangote, Nigeria will witness unprecedented economic boost in terms of job creation, employment and poverty reduction.”

  • Dangote group set to commence $150m Solar Power Project in Kano

    Dangote group set to commence $150m Solar Power Project in Kano

    Kano state Government has finally handed over 150 hectares of land promised to Dangote Group of companies for the development of $150m Dangote/Black Rhino Solar power plant in Zakirai, Gabasawa local government area of the state. 

    A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the provision of the 100 Solar megawatts was  signed between the  Kano state Government and the Dangote Group in August last year, with the aim of increasing electricity supply  to the people, revive the  industries closedown as well as enhance  the economic development of  the state .

    The Secretary to Kano State Government, Alhaji Usman Alhaji  signed on behalf of the state, while Executive Director Dangote Group , Engr. Mansur Ahmed  for his company, said the project will be jointly funded by its partners from the United States Black Rhino

    Representative of Aliko Dangote, Managing Director Stakeholder Management Dangote Group, Bello Danmusa received the land on behalf of the business magnatel. 

    The occasion was witnessed by representatives of the district head of Zakirai, Alhaji Abubakar Bello Bayero and Surveyor General of Kano state, Dayyabu Dandikko Rogo

    The project is expected to be completed within two years. 

    The representative of Alhaji Abubakar Bello Bayero thanked Aliko Dangote for the project saying  “It will enhance small businesses of women and youth for their empowerment and curb restiveness.”

  • A SPECIAL PUBLICATION ON NIGERIA’S BUSINESS ICONS(1):Aliko Dangote: The multi-dimensional global player

    A SPECIAL PUBLICATION ON NIGERIA’S BUSINESS ICONS(1):Aliko Dangote: The multi-dimensional global player

    Aliko Dangote’s rising profile as Nigeria’s and indeed Africa’s leading business mogul, is in more respect than one. His business exploits, be it in manufacturing, trading, haulage, agriculture and what have you, speak for themselves and his array of products, dot many homes, offering needed relief to many, who needn’t worry any more about how and where to get their consumables.

    Cement production is where Dangote has both cut his teeth and made his mark, but it will be grossly misleading to ignore and downplay, not just his achievements, but exploits in several other sectors. Take agriculture, his success story there is legendary. He is committing over $4billion to the sector. Sugarcane is already in his kitty. Salt, flour, water and an array of beverages feature prominently in his production line. Add to this oil and gas, both upstream and downstream, communication (ICT), banking and unrivalled philanthropy. It’s as though whatever he directs his attention turns to gold.

    Profiling Aliko Dangote is not just an exercise, it’s a study in itself, the reason being that the man remains an unfolding enigma.

     

    Dangote Group

    The Dangote Group is one of the most diversified business conglomerates in Africa with a hard-earned reputation for excellent business practices and products’ quality. The Group’s activities span cement manufacturing, sugar and refining, salt, flour and semolina milling. The list which covers a wide range of household items, incorporates pasta, noodles and poly products manufacturing. Add to the sprawling list the Logistics department that’s involved in ports operations, management and haulage, a vibrant and intimidating Real Estate section, Truck Assemblage, the Partnership with Government on roads construction.  Dangote Foundation, his philanthropic arm’s scope of operation spans the field of education, awards of scholarships, grants and health. It has a partnership with the Melinda and Gates Foundation in the fight on eradication of polio.

    Since inception, the Group has experienced phenomenal growth, not only on account of the quality of its goods and services, but also its focus on cost, leadership and efficiency of its human capital. To say the Dangote Group is a multi-billion Naira company reaching new heights in every endeavour, is to say the least, an understatement.

     

    Goal

    The Group’s core business focus is to provide local, value added products and services that meet the ‘basic needs’ of the populace. Through the construction and operation of large scale manufacturing facilities in Nigeria and across Africa, the Conglomerate is focused on building local manufacturing capacity to generate employment and provide goods (industrial and household) for the people. It is touching lives by providing their basic needs. The Group’s Vision to be a world-class enterprise that is passionate about enhancing the standard of living of the general populace and giving high returns to stakeholders, is already being felt.

     

    Core Values

    Customer Service : The Group’s overwhelming success in its endeavours is anchored on the attention accorded its customers. Customer Service is key. As a world-class organisation, the Conglomerate understands that it exists to serve and satisfy its customers. Accordingly, the Group remains close to the customer and at the same time maintaining its integrity and learning to continuously satisfy customer needs.

    Entrepreneurship & Excellence:  The Group is in a race to continuously seek and develop new businesses and employing state-of-the-art methods to retain its market leadership. As a conglomerate, it is working in unison with other Divisions to deliver the best products and services to its customers and stakeholders.

    Leadership: On leadership, the Group’s record is unassailable. It strives to be the leader in its business, markets and communities, always focusing on continuous improvement, partnership and professionalism.

     

    Diversity

    The Dangote Group is about the most diversified conglomerate in Nigeria and beyond. It has manufacturing interests in cement, sugar, salt, woven sacks, rice and is building a petrochemical/fertilizer complex. The Group operates three cement plants in Nigeria, Obajana, Ibese and Gboko. The combined capacities of the three cement plants ended the era of cement importation.

    Dangote Cement has plants in Cameroun, Ethiopia, Zambia, Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Congo, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone

    Since inception, the Group has experienced phenomenal growth on account of its products’ quality and service delivery.

    Dangote Group continues to grow its vision of becoming the leading provider of essential needs in Food and Shelter in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Group continues to sustain and improve on its market leadership in cement manufacturing, sugar milling and refining.

    The future of manufacturing in Nigeria is very bright considering the huge endowment of natural resources, the abundant pool of skilled work force and the enormous market potential the country offers to investors. Dangote Group is well poised to harness these opportunities given its pedigree in its relentless drive and commitment in becoming the leading player in its various markets.

     

    Dangote Group  Management Team

    Dangote Group management comprises dynamic leaders drawn from various realms of Industry the world over, bringing in their expertise and years of experience to spearhead the multi-facet operations and rapid expansion. Together, the team has dared to dream while daring to deliver in every area of presence propelling quantum growth and ensuring prosperity to all stake holders.

    The Group Management team comprises :

    • Aliko Dangote President / CEO
    • Sani Dangote Vice President
    • Olakunle Alake Chief Operating Officer
    • Abdu Dantata Group Executive Director – Logistics & Distribution
    • Devakumar V G Edwin Group Executive Director,
    • Sada Ladan-Baki Group Executive Director
    • Sadik Ali Mohammed Group Executive Director
    • Knut Ulvmoen Group Executive Director

    “Mansur Ahmed Group Executive Director

    “Halima Aliko Dangote Group Executive Director

    • Joseph Makoju Honorary Adviser to the President/CE

     

    Dangote Cement

    Dangote Cement is Africa’s leading cement producer with nearly 46Mta capacity across Africa. A fully integrated quarry-to-customer producer, it has a production capacity of 29.25Mta in its home market, Nigeria.

    Obajana plant in Kogi state, Nigeria, is the largest in Africa with 13.25Mta of capacity across four lines; Ibese plant in Ogun State has four cement lines with a combined installed capacity of 12Mta and Gboko plant in Benue state has 4Mta.

    Through recent investments, Dangote Cement has eliminated Nigeria’s dependence on imported cement and has transformed the nation into an exporter of cement serving neighbouring countries.

    In addition, Dangote Cement have operations in Cameroon (1.5Mta clinker grinding), Congo (1.5Mta), Ghana (1.5Mta import), Ethiopia (2.5Mta), Senegal (1.5Mta), Sierra Leone (0.5Mta import), South Africa (2.8Mta), Tanzania (3.0Mta), Zambia (1.5Mta).

     

    Dangote Sugar Refinery

    Dangote Sugar Refinery is the nation’s foremost sugar refinery. Its refined products come in several categories;50 kg, 10 kg and 5 kg and all are fortified according to regulatory demands. Dangote Sugar has developed a sugar backward integration project plan targeted at the production of 1.5MT/PA from various sites across Nigeria, in the next 10 years.

    Dangote Group commenced sugarcane plantation with the acquisition of Savannah Sugar Company Limited, in Numan, Adamawa State from the Federal Government in 2003. The Group has invested over N38billion in the company, and is still making huge investments in expanding the size of the plantation and the factory. Savannah is the only company that is a local producer of sugar on a commercial scale, in Nigeria today

    The Group is building an integrated sugar complex at Tunga Nasarawa State which is in phases. it comprises of 60,000ha sugar plantation and two sugar factories with a capacity to produce 430,000tpa of refined white sugar which represents about 30% of national consumption. At completion, it will be the largest sugar plant in Nigeria. In Phase II, the plantation will be extended to 100,000ha making it the largest sugar plant in Africa.

    Dangote Sugar is acquiring about 150,000 hectares for sugar plantation in Adamawa, Taraba, Nasarawa, Kwara, Kogi and Niger States, however is concentrating on Adamawa, Taraba and Nasarawa states in the Phase I of the sugar project. These sugar plantations, will generate over 100,000 employment opportunities, help the nation achieve sugar sufficiency and extend the values chain through establishing integrated sugar mills within these locations, generate power, which has been a major challenge in the country, produce molasses, ethanol (fuel) and biomass.

     

    Dangote Flour Mills

    From an initial installed capacity of 500 MT per day at its Apapa mill, Dangote Flour has expanded rapidly by opening in quick successions three other flour mills in Kano (2000), Calabar (2001) and Ilorin (2005). Each of the mills started with an installed capacity of 500 MT per day but all of them have subsequently expanded resulting in a total installed capacity of 5,000 MT per day, distributed as follows:

    Apapa – 1,000 MT per day

    Kano – 500 MT per day

    Calabar -1,500 MT per day

    Ilorin -1,000 MT per day

    These expansions were in response to a growing national demand for flour and flour based products in addition to the company’s drive for increased market share. The company is in the business of flour milling, processing and marketing of branded flour. Its product portfolio comprises the following: Bread Flour; Confectionery Flour; Semolina, and, Wheat Offal (Bran)

    All the Dangote Flour mills are equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and technology by Buhler of Switzerland and the product is Vitamin A fortified. The company imports its principal raw material – Wheat (the Hard Red winter Wheat No.2 variety) from United States of America in shiploads. Wheat Tankers (also DIL owned) there after convey the wheat to the inland mills to Kano and Ilorin. The products are efficiently distributed across Nigeria with excellent distribution network and in-house haulage.

     

    Haulage-Logistics

    Dangote Transport

    Timely production and distribution is possible only with reliable transport and logistics services. Transportation plays a vital role in the supply of Raw Material to the factories and also distribution of goods from the various factories to ware houses and to the markets.

    To enhance   the Group’s supply chain and business logistics, Dangote Group has set up one of the most extensive transport and distribution networks in Nigeria consisting of five regional offices and a fleet of over 15,000 trailer trucks and bulk carriers with the ability to haul goods of about 40 tonnes to any part of Nigeria. The Dangote Transport provides logistic support to the entire Group and is responsible for the distribution of all Dangote products across Nigeria. The Division also owns a fully equipped workshop in Lagos, Kano, Calabar, Ilorin, Obajana and Gboko, for servicing and maintenance of its fleet.

     

    Oil & Gas

    Dangote Equity Energy Resources

    Iron & Steel

    Integrated Steel Plc- As a part of its vision for the future, Dangote Group Company – Integrated Steel Plc, has acquired the Oshogbo Steel Rolling Company. MECON – a leading Iron & Steel consultants were assigned the task of complete modernisation of the plant with updated technology and equipment. The Oshogbo Steel Rolling Mill strategically located in Oshogbo, Osun State,   produces MS and HT Ribbed bars from billets and has a capacity of 210,000 – 315,000 metric tonnes a year. The steel rolling mill has a three-shift production basis and a captive power plant of 40 megawatts capacity.

     

  • Dangote sells noodles plants to De United for $12.26m

    Dangote sells noodles plants to De United for $12.26m

    A unit of Dangote Flour Mills, Dangote Noodles Limited, has sold two production lines to rival pasta maker, De United Foods Industries, for N3.75bn ($12.26m), the company said on yesterday.

    De United said it had signed an agreement with the firm to buy plants at its Ikorodu and Calabar factories. It will also buy stock worth N383.94m, according to a statement from the company.

    The deal comes after Dangote sold a small stake in its cement business to foreign investors in a one-off stock market deal valued at N27bn.

    The company, majority owned by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, had said it wanted to quit the noodles business to focus on flour and pasta production.

    Nigeria’s noodle market is fiercely competitive and De United, with a market share of around 70 per cent, is seeking to consolidate the sector.

    Privately-held Dangote Industries Limited, with interests in agriculture, real estate and truck assembly, bought back the flour unit it had sold to South Africa’s Tiger Brand for $1 in 2015 after it posted losses.

    Shares in Dangote Flour Mills have more than doubled so far this year after rising by 276 per cent last year. The stock price was down by 3.17 per cent on Tuesday at N9.20 naira.

    Dufil Prima Foods, the parent of De United Foods, is a privately held company set up over two decades ago, which has grown to become the largest pasta maker in West Africa.

    De United said the transaction had been approved by both companies and the regulators.

    It was learnt that De United would continue to produce noodles under the Dangote brand for two years after the acquisition.

    In July Dufil Prima Foods said it would raise N40billion in the local debt market to broaden its funding base.