Tag: Alhaji Aliko Dangote

Farouk Ahmed Must Go’: Coalition launches Nationwide, Diaspora protests

Lukman Laleye Babalola

A broad coalition of civil society organisations has announced coordinated nationwide protests across Nigeria, alongside simultaneous demonstrations in New York and London, demanding the immediate removal of Farouk Ahmed as Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA). The protests are scheduled to begin on Wednesday from the NMDPRA headquarters in Abuja and will continue throughout the week in major cities across the country. Parallel demonstrations are planned at the United Nations headquarters in New York and the Nigeria House in London, signalling what organisers…

Dangote, How Not to be a Realist

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Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, knows how to build factories and dismantle competitors. What he does not know—or perhaps refuses to admit—is when silence would better serve the national interest. His recent verdict on Ajaokuta Steel Company was less an act of candour than an exercise in crass cynicism. Declaring the project obsolete and doomed, he mistook provocation for realism and forgot that patriotism demands more than the luxury of dismissal.   For decades, Ajaokuta has stood as Nigeria’s unfinished industrial cathedral: vast, expensive, and frustrating. Yet, like all great…

NNPCL GCEO, Dangote explore strategic energy collaboration to boost National Prosperity

Lukman Laleye Babalola

The Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC Limited, Mr. Bashir Bayo Ojulari, on Wednesday received the President/CEO of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, and his delegation from Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals (DPRP) at the NNPC Towers, Abuja.   The high-level courtesy visit focused on exploring strategic areas of collaboration between the two major players in Nigeria’s energy sector, aimed at ensuring energy security and fostering sustainable economic growth for the country. During the meeting, both leaders emphasized the importance of a healthy partnership and constructive competition between NNPC Ltd.…

NDIS: Dabiri-Erewa highlights recorded achievements,as 7th Nigeria Diaspora Investment holds Nov 5th -7th, 2024 ……. Dangote,Other Business Leaders to speak at the event

Lukman Laleye Babalola

Hon Dr Abike Dabiri-Erewa Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NiDCOM has said the Nigeria Diaspora Investment Summit NDIS is yielding desired goals based on the success recorded so far since its 1st Edition in 2018. NiDCOM Boss stated this at a World Press Conference in preparation for the 7th Edition of NDIS,held in Abuja on Thursday 17th October,2024. She said the 7th Nigeria Diaspora Investment Summit which is organized by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) in collaboration with the Nigeria Diaspora Summit Initiative (NDSI), with the theme,”New Vistas, New…

Deputy Speaker Kalu felicitates Dangote on receipt of Senegalese highest national honours

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The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu has rejoiced with the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote on the award of National Order of the Lion, being Senegal’s highest national honour recently conferred on him by President Macky Sall.   The National Order of the Lion was instituted by Law 60-36 of 22 October 1960 in Senegal.   It is awarded to certain individuals in recognition of their outstanding feats and contributions to Senegalese national development.  …

Tinubu meets Dangote, Bill Gates in Aso Villa

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday, held a meeting with Aliko Dangote, president of Dangote Group, and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.   The visit was part of the Gates Foundation’s commitment to working with leaders and partners to support innovation that can help accelerate progress and improve lives across Africa.   During the meeting, Tinubu pledged to give priority attention to the health and safety of Nigerians.   While saluting the courage and commitment of Bill Gates to…

Buhari inaugurates Dangote refinery today,6 presidents, Tinubu to grace event

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President Muhammadu Buhari will today commission the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals, the world’s largest single-train refinery in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos. Daily Trust had exclusively reported Sunday that five other presidents would be joining President Buhari in the epoch-making event that is expected to positively transform Nigeria’s oil and gas sectoral landscape. Expected at the historic event, apart from international dignitaries, are the Presidents of Togo, Gnassingbé Eyadéma; Ghana’s Nana Akufo-Addo; President of Senegal, Macky Sall; President of Niger Republic, Mohamed Bazoum; President of Chad, Mahamat Déby; and a host of ambassadors…

Dangote Refinery Challenges Global Narrative – Azu Ishiekwene

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It started like a grudge match. Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, was dealt a bad hand in a failed transaction. Later, he vowed revenge. Not in a pound of flesh, but by venturing to make his own success where he had been ambushed. At issue was the decision of the government of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2007 to reverse the sale of the Port Harcourt and Kaduna Refineries (two of Nigeria’s moribund refineries) to Blue Star, the Dangote-led consortium. Blue Star had paid about $670million for the plants in the…

In Kogi, it is raining Sahara, by Dare Babarinsa

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It is good and commendable that after many weeks of hesitation, the Federal Government decided to intervene in the dispute between the Kogi State Government and Dangote Industries Plc over the ownership of the Dangote Cement Factory in Obajana, Kogi State. Since Dangote opened the cement industry in Obajana in 2002, that town has never slept until Governor Yahaya Bello intervened and tried to put the town to sleep. Anytime you get there, no matter the hour of the day or night, the industrial town is always awake. I am…

KOGI-DANGOTE FACEOFF: Intergotating Adedayo’s Hatchet Job By Abdullahi O. Haruna, HARUSPICE

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When providence beckoned on Alhaji Yahaya Bello to become Governor of Kogi State in 2015, on the podium of his inauguration, he made a solemn pledge that reads; “My Administration shall exist for the sole purpose of serving the superseding interests of the people of Kogi State to the very best of its capabilities. We also undertake to never lend our capacities to servicing the avarice of anyone or group–whether from Kogi State or elsewhere”. This was his pledge to the people of Kogi state and stoically, he has stuck…