Speaking at a two-day Power Sector Stakeholders Interactive Dialogue convened by the National Assembly in Abuja, Makoju, who was Special Adviser to three Presidents of Nigeria on Power, canvassed for fundamental structural change as against the current path of tariff increases and government bailouts
Browsing: Alhaji Aliko Dangote
Aliko Dangote (second left); the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji; the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi (third right); the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar; and the Emir of Kano, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
A statement by the group’s regional spokesman, Abubakar Jibrin, in Abuja stated that the award was in recognition of Dangote’s “avowed Pan-African posture, laced with his nationalistic approach in locating his industries and his employment policies”
It affected in the main the packaging material section and part of the laminate stores
The fraudsters, according to the Dangote Group, perpetuate their wicked act through popular social network sites and other channels including email, sms, special placements on e-commerce sites
The business guru was named and presented the award at a colourful ceremony held on the sideline of the United Nations Congress held in New York, United States alongside other prominent Africans like Stephen Hayes, President and CEO of the Corporate Council on Africa, who won the AAI 2016 U.S. Business Leader Award’; and Sunil Benimadhu, the Executive Director of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius, who won the AAI 2016 Distinguished Alumnus Award
When asked in an interview with Bloomberg Television when he hopes to buy the Gunners, Dangote said: “Maybe three to four years. The issue is that we have more challenging headwinds. I need to get those out the way first and start having tailwinds. Then I’ll focus on this
The World Habitat Day, which was birthed by the United Nations in 1986, with the theme: “Shelter is My Right,” was aimed at reaffirming adequate shelter, which is a basic human right, focus on the conditions of cities and towns…to remind the world of its collective responsibility for the future
He said that with the kind of weather and natural resources in the state, Edo could be made an employment hub for job seekers
Dangote made the pledge shortly after visiting the Internally Displaced Persons camps in Dalori and Bakassi in Maiduguri, Borno State
The business mogul, who recently donated N2 billion and millions of Naira worth of food items on behalf of the Dangote Foundation to the IDPs when he visited some of the camps in Maiduguri, Bornu State, urged Nigerians to have empathy for those in the camps
Hajiya Zouwaira Yousif, a member of the Foundation, stated this at the launching of the distribution of the items to the IDPs in Maiduguri
Other speakers on the Panel, who expressed confidence in the long term giant leap in Africa’s industrial strive in years to come, while reviewing the McKinsey report, titled: “Lions on the Move 2.0: The continuing progress of Africa’s economies,” were Dominic Barton, CEO Global McKinsey; Ashish Thakkar, Executive Chairman of Mara Sokoni; Makhtar Diop, Vice-President for Africa, the World Bank; and Carlos Lopez: General Executive-Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa
“So, we should pay attention to the agricultural sector for investment opportunities, particularly when the crude oil is now becoming unreliable.
Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony of six million metric tons Dangote Cement’s new plant in Okpella, Edo State, Oshiomole said Nigerians will be forever grateful to the industrialist for helping to reduce the unemployment rate in the country
Dangote has become one of several high-profile Nigerians— including Senate President Bukola Saraki and disgraced former Delta state governor James Ibori—to be implicated in the leak, which exposed how the world’s rich and famous use offshore facilities and shell companies to hide their wealth. The use of offshore shell companies is not necessarily illegal but is often a tactic employed to avoid paying tax
But speaking in Abuja on Saturday during the inauguration of National Movement for the Liberation of Western Sahara, the NLC President, Dr. Ayuba Wabba, warned that such plan would be resisted by the labour movement
The company stated that the communities in which it is setting up the new plants are Okpella in the northern part of Edo State, South South of Nigeria, with a three million per annum plant, and another six million per annum capacity plants in Itori in Ogun State, South West of the country
L-R: The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole; Co-Chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates; and the President/CEO, Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote,
The prayers were offered as governments and local NGOs battle to contain the humanitarian crisis in the North East region of the country