The President, Dangote Group, Alhaji
Aliko Dangote, has said that Nigeria will be the highest exporter of
cement by the year 2018.
Dangote stated this while receiving The Guardian Man of The Year 2015 award in Lagos.
“The only way we can help the continent
is to be self-sufficient and also export. What we have been able to
achieve is that in the next two years, Nigeria will be the highest
exporter of cement,” he stated.
He said the group had looked at critical
areas where the country was not doing very well in terms of local
production and decided to invest in those areas.
According to him, the company has also
invested in a refinery with a production capacity of 650, 0000 barrels
per day, adding that its petrochemical plant, which has a production
capacity of 1.2 million metric tonnes, was 10 times that of Eleme
petrochemicals, which has 120,000MT production capacity.
“We will be the largest producer of petrochemicals in Africa,” he stated.
In the area of power, Dangote noted that
the only solution to the situation in the country was to have enough
gas and sort out the distribution.
He added that the company’s two subsea
gas pipelines contained three billion stock of gas just a little below
the LNG, which is 3.1 billion.
He said the award was the most cherished
among all the honours he had received both locally and internationally,
including being Forbes’ richest man in Africa.
“The reason why the Guardian award is
the most important is because it is rare for people to be appreciated at
home,” Dangote added.
Speaking about the choice of Dangote for
the award, the Chairman/Publisher of Guardian Newspapers Limited, Lady
Maiden Ibru, said the industrialist stood shoulders above others in his
bold efforts to become the builder of a modern Africa.
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