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L-R: Group Chief Branding & Communications Officer, Dangote Industries Limited, Anthony Chiejina; Group Executive Director, Strategy, Capital Projects & Portfolio Development, âDangote Industries Limited, Devakumar Edwin receiving an award of âThe Most Outstanding Company in Africaâ from Diplomatic President, West African Studentâs Union (WASU), Comrade Romans Pillah during the West African Studentâs Union (WASU) visit to Dangote Industries Head Office in Lagos recentlyâ¦Tasks W/African leaders on youth unemployment
West African Studentâs Union (WASU) has commended the aggressive employment generation drive of the Aliko Dangote led companies, urging other wealthy West African leaders to invest in industries that will rid the region of high unemployment rate.
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The Dangote refinery is an ambitious project. It has been seen as the answer to the many questions around Nigeria’s oil and gas sector. The woes of the sector will disappear once the project becomes operational, the government thinks. But, really, will this massive project solve all of Nigeria’s energy woes?
Deep-seated problem Nigeria’s energy woes are well documented. The oil and gas sector, especially the downstream sector, is beset with deep-seated corruption and nepotism, making the sector largely inefficient and sub-optimally harnessed.
One of the most significant issues in the sector is the state of the country’s four state-run refineries: two in Port Harcourt, one in Warri and the other up north in Kaduna.
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Dealers, particularly retailers, have blamed the N3, 400 retail price of a bag of cement in Lagos on cost of transportation and other logistics accrued after original purchase.
They made this known in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos.
This was as the same quantity of both Dangote and Lafarge cement were seen to be sold at a retail price of N3, 400 in a survey by NAN in Lagos.
Mr AbdulRasheed Babatunde, a cement retailer, attributed the development to the additional costs of logistics, transportation, shop rent, and labour after purchase.