The current recession rocking the Nigerian economy has hit one of the biggest employers of labour in the country outside of the government as the Dangote Group, belonging to Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has fired 48 members of staff. Our correspondents gathered that those...

Dangote Cement Plc invested over $5bn to build 44 million tonnes per annum cement factories in eight African countries in 2015, the firm said in its 2015 annual report. These countries are: Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Ghana. The Chairman, Dangote Cement,...