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Govs, Dangote Head To Seattle For Healthcare Roundtable

November 11, 2019 11:58 am

In a bid to improve healthcare delivery across Nigeria, Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed alongside the Governors of Borno, Lagos and Gombe states, accompanied by the President of the Dangote Foundation, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, headed for the United States on Monday for a crucial meeting in Seattle.

A statement signed by the Governor’s Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media, Muktar Gidado, and made available to Daily Sun, disclosed that Mohammed and others in the Nigerian delegation would be participating in a round table discussion on healthcare interventions for their respective states with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and …

Dangote To Repair Abuja Stadium

November 8, 2019 10:00 am

The football pitch of the Moshood Abiola National Stadium will get a major facelift with the implementation of the Adopt-A-Pitch Campaign by the ministry of youth and sports.

The youth and sports minister, Sunday Dare, announced on his social media platform that Dangote Industries owned by billionaire Alhaji Aliko Dangote was partnering the ministry in the Adopt-A-Pitch Campaign.

“Many thanks to Dangote Industries and indeed Alhaji Aliko Dangote for partnering with the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development to restore the football pitch and score board of the Moshood Abiola National stadium. Our Adopt-A-Pitch Campaign program is on course,” Dare …

200 Youths Graduate from Dangote Refinery’s SAP

October 17, 2019 6:04 am

About 200 youths from Ibeju-Lekki community in Lagos State have graduated from the various skills acquisition programme organised by Dangote Petroleum Refinery as a way of transforming society and providing employment opportunities for the youths.

The programme was put together by Dangote Petroleum Refinery and facilitated by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) and the Nigerian Content Development and Management Board (NCDMB).

The skills acquisition programme, which cuts across a wide range of vocational skills such as plumbing, welding, iron bending, auto mechanics and electrical works, marked the successful completion of the first batch the trainees.

The programme marks another …

Dangote Establishes ₦3bn Tomato Processing Factory In Kano

October 5, 2019 2:57 am

Dangote Tomatoes Processing Plant has established a ₦3 billion Green House nursery in Kano, designed to process over 300 to 350 million tons of hybrid tomato seedlings expected to make Nigeria self-sufficient in tomatoes production.

The Managing-Director of the Farm, Mr. Abdulkarim Lawal Kaita, said that the Green House Nursery would facilitate increased production of high-quality seedlings which the company plans to roll out to tomatoes farmers to both production of fresh tomatoes and locally made tomatoes paste in the country.

Kaita told reporters yesterday that, for the Federal Government to sustain the new quest for consumption of locally …

NNPC reports $226m oil revenue drop in June

Refinery: NNPC not in competition with Dangote – Kyari

August 1, 2019 1:30 am

The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Malam Mele Kyari says the corporation is not in contest for market share with the forthcoming Dangote Refinery.

Kyari disclosed this in a statement signed by Mr Ndu Ughamadu the spokesman for the corporation, in Abuja, on Wednesday.

He said that NNPC focus was on providing support to the promoters of the project to boost the country’s refining capacity.

Kyari was quoted to have said this while receiving the President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, at the towers.

He explained that as the chief enabler of the …

Dangote, world’s 11th greatest leader – US journal

May 19, 2019 10:48 pm

Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote has been ranked 11th in the club of World’s 50 Greatest Leaders for this year.

The rating was announced by Fortune, a multinational business magazine based in New York City, United States. It focuses mainly on privately-run businesses and how their promoters have used them to impact their society positively.

The magazine, which had its maiden edition published in February 1930, said the world’s greatest leaders (both men and women) are transforming the world and inspiring others to do so in business, government, philanthropy and the arts.

It said: “These thinkers, speakers and doers …

Dangote has donated a lot to Nigerian universities – FG

May 6, 2019 9:51 pm

The federal government has revealed that the N1.2billion hostel donated by the Aliko Dangote Foundation to Ahmadu Bello University Zaria is the single largest donation by an individual in the history of universities in Nigeria.

Executive Secretary of the National University Commission (NUC), Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, who represented President Muhammadu Buhari at the inauguration of the Aliko Dangote Hall, extended the federal government’s appreciation to the president of the Dangote group.

I once withdrew $10m cash to be sure of my wealth – Dangote

April 8, 2019 9:15 pm

Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote has disclosed at which point he was convinced that he had money. According to him, it wasn’t after he had withdrawn 10 million dollars cash from a bank that he was sure of his wealth.

Dangote was speaking in the Ivorian capital Abidjan where he was attending the 2019 Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s Governance Week celebrations.

He made the disclosure during a one-on-one session with host and head of the foundation, Sudanese millionaire Mo Ibrahim. Asked about his wealth, Dangote said he had stopped looking at the number of zeros on his bank statement.

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Northern Nigeria will continue to remain poor – Dangote

April 3, 2019 7:23 pm

African richest and Chairman of Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has said Northern Nigeria will continue to remain poor except states governments move to close the development gap between the north and the south.

Dangote, who spoke at the 4th edition of the Kaduna Investment Summit (KadInvest 4.0) in Kaduna on Wednesday, berated Northern governors for doing little to end poverty in the region.

According to him: “Nigeria is ranked at 157th out of 189 countries on the human development index. While the overall socio-economic condition in the country is a cause for concern, the regional disparities are …