The plan of Alhaji Aliko Dangote’s to establish a sugar plantation and a factory in Kebbi State may have hit the rock, as indigenous land owners, who are mostly farmers, have refused to release their farm land. Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu said this at an...

The refinery and fertiliser projects of Dangote Industries Ltd (DIL) is expected to create no fewer than 235,000 direct and indirect new jobs when it becomes operational in the first quarter of 2019. President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, who disclosed this at the weekend...

Africa’s richest man and President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has clarified that his refinery, petrochemical and fertilizer plant did not collect as much foreign exchange from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as some people have speculated, stressing that his company raised a...

...Osinbajo hails ‘incredible’ project Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has described the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals as an incredible industrial undertaking. He spoke during a tour of facilities at the site at Ibeju-Lekki in Lagos. Osinbajo, who described the projects as ambitious, noted that the gas pipeline on...

Nigerian billionaire and Africa’s richest person, Aliko Dangote, fell 25 places on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index as the naira tumbled on its first day of trading without a peg to the United States dollar. Dangote’s fortune fell $3.7 billion, knocking him to No. 71 on...

Africa's richest man is building one of the world's largest oil refineries. Nigeria has a problem: The country is one of the world's top oil producers, but it doesn't have enough gasoline to fuel its struggling economy. On the outskirts of Lagos, Africa's richest man is...