The pan-African conglomerate, Dangote Group, has concluded preliminary arrangements to inject and build a multi-million Naira 500mw of electricity into the national grid for the people of Kano State, the Company’s management said at the weekend.
The Group Executive Director in charge of Stakeholders Management and Corporate Communications, Engineer Mansur Ahmed, made this disclosure at Dangote Special Day event at the Kano 36th International Trade Fair, just as the Dangote Cement mega promo triggered sales at the fair.
Ahmed said the electricity will also benefit the new power plan, which is part of the philanthropic gesture of the company meant to support government’s effort in the provision of electricity for the people in the region and when completed it would benefit Jigawa, Katsina and some parts of Kaduna State.
He said the Dangote Foundation was scaling up its charity works across several African countries and has started deepening its philanthropic gestures in the areas of health and education.
According to him, the Foundation’s projects in Kano include the construction of a Diagnostic Centre at the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, the building of 11 health care centres and 200 boreholes, as well as its nutrition programme.
He said in the North Eastern part of the country, the Foundation has also provided over N1 billion to support Internally Displaced Persons and is desirous of addressing the challenges of unemployment in the country.
Companies from the Dangote Group that are on ground at the fair include Dangote Sugar Refinery, NASCON Allied Industries Plc (Dangote Salt), Dangote Cement Plc and Dansa Foods Limited among others.
Some of the products being displayed at the fair include Dangote Sugar, Dangote Cement, Dangote salt, DanQ seasoning, tomato paste, various ranges of fruit juice products and bottled water from Dansa Foods.
Dangote Sugar is offering customers different sizes of granulated sugar packs at the fair.
One of the high points at the fair was the enthusiasm shown by the visitors to the ongoing Dangote Cement Mega promo, which made some of them to order for cement on the spot.
Dangote cement recently launched a promo through which it intends to financially empower its cement end users through by making available over N300 million to be won by customers on daily basis through a draw.
Speaking also at the Trade Fair, Regional Director of Dangote Group, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama, urged Nigerians to grab the opportunity offered as 183 millionaires will emerge in 90 days of the promo.
He said the fair has become a veritable avenue for the display of innovative products of the Dangote products and that visitors to the group pavilion will have the opportunity of buying the products at discounted prices.
Speaking earlier at the opening ceremony, the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who was represented by the Commissioner for Commerce, Rabiu Bako, said the state government and KACCIMA are working together to encourage private sector participation to ensure the planned economic development of the state.
Bako said Kano State is creating an industrial layout for those in the private sector with guaranteed supply of electricity to support government’s industrialization strides.
The Minister of Industry and Trade, Okechukwu Enelamah, who represented the Federal Government at the opening ceremony, said the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari was committed to agricultural and industrial development in the country.
The statement from Dangote Group said customers wanting to be distributors of any of the Dangote Group’s subsidiaries would have the opportunity to be offered informed explanations by staff of the companies who would be on hand to put the customers through.
Speaking earlier, the President of the Kano State Chambers of Commerce Industry Mines and Agriculture, Umar Farouk Rabiu Dansuleka, described the Dangote Group as a worthy partner and major sponsor of the Trade Fair.
Dansuleka said the Dangote Group has contributed to the development of businesses in the country through the sponsoring businesses activities like the Trade Fair.
In the same vein, the Director General of the Kano State Chambers of Commerce Industry Mines and Agriculture, Alhaji Aliyu Muhammad Mustafa, hailed the Dangote Group for the sponsorship and for supporting the growth of businesses in Kano State.
“Dangote Group is our major sponsor. We want to commend Alhaji Aliko Dangote for helping businesses to grow in Kano State and by extension the whole of Nigeria,” Mustafa said.
Alhaji Mustafa expressed optimism that this year’s trade fair, with the theme: “Improving Products Quality and Packaging to Competitiveness for the Attainment of Sustainable Economic Growth,” is seeing a higher patronage.
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