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Dangote has emerged as the most valuable brand among the top 50 brands in Nigeria for 2018 unveiled at the weekend in Lagos.

The Executive Director of the Dangote Group, Hajiya Halima Aliko Dangote, has urged millennials in Nigeria and across Africa to diversify from service-oriented enterprises to manufacturing and agriculture in a bid to fast-track the development of the continent and better life for its nationals.

Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Chief Executive Officer, Dangote Group, has urged the Federal Government to provide critical infrastructure that would make the nation’s environment conducive for businesses to thrive.

The initiative will see an initial investment of N500 million by Dangote Group

The company even comes ahead of telecommunication giant, MTN, according to the South African based Brand Leadership Movement in collaboration with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

He said: “I want to congratulate the Inspector General of Police on this latest donation of 150 cars.

Dangote stated this on Wednesday in Lafia while disbursing N130 million micro grant to 13,000 vulnerable and less privileged women in Nasarawa State.

Dangote spoke just as the flagship of the conglomerate, the Dangote Cement Plc, commenced the training of its newly engaged managers in order to sustain its leadership and competitiveness in the industry.

The MoU was signed on Wednesday

Ambode, who inspected the progress of work alongside cabinet members; billionaire businessmen, Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola; among other businessmen, said the investments and the infrastructural renewal in the Lekki-Epe axis simultaneously ongoing were geared towards preparing the State for industrial revolution taking place in Nigeria and by extension the West African region

Dangote was accompanied by his daughter, Hajiya Halima Dangote and her husband, Alhaji Suleiman Bello and some members of Dangote group.

BCG listed the companies in its report entitled, ‘Pioneering One Africa: African Corporations Trail-blazing across the Continent’, according to a statement issued by Globacom in Lagos on Thursday.

Tony Chiejina, the Head, Corporate Communications, Dangote Group, in a statement on Monday in Lagos, said that Ahmed Mansur, the Executive Director, Stakeholders Management and Corporate Communication, represented Dangote at the award.

Speaking at the just concluded Kogi State Economic Summit in Lokoja, the businessman said the absence of solid mineral buying centers and lapidaries has enabled the flourishing of cartels who engage in illegal sale of minerals out of the country, with resultant loss of solid minerals revenue from taxes and royalties.

Dangote in a statement revealed that its reaction became very necessary as a result of its status as a publicly quoted company and to further re-assure its shareholders, the regulators and members of the public that the company is and remains a responsible corporate citizen.

Dangote’s Executive Director, Devakumar Edwin, frowned at the media war instigated by BUA against the Dangote Group over a matter which is already pending before the Federal High Court, Benin Division

Alhaji Mohammed Abass, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, said in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja that the publication by the company to blackmail the ministry into granting a free pass for illegal operations, was unwarranted

Ahmad, represented by the command’s Spokesman, Magaji Mailafiya, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday that the seizures were made last week Thursday and Friday along Illela-Sokoto road.

The Group Executive Director of the Company, Engr. Ahmed Mansur, who will be leading others to the Tafawa Balewa Square venue of the Day, said Dangote Companies are structured to deliver critical goods and services that are capable of improving the standard of living of the general populace. 

Business units from the group that are exhibiting at the fair include Dangote Sugar Refinery, Dangote Flour Mill, Dangote Agrosacks, National Salt Company of Nigeria, Dangote Pasta and Dangote Cement.