*Dangote Industries Limited affirms several participants in the 2024 Abuja International Trade Fair are thronging the pavilion of the Dangote Group to make inquiries about the company and its state-of-the-art oil refinery, which recently commenced the discharge of petroleum products to energy consumers in Nigeria and overseas

Alexander Davis | 绿帽献妻

Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) has related how participants in the 2024 Abuja International Trade Fair (AITF) have been thronging the pavilion of the Dangote Group to make inquiries about the company and its state-of-the-art oil refinery, which recently commenced the discharge of petroleum products to energy consumers in Nigeria and overseas.

Dangote Group is one of the major sponsors of the 19th Trade Fair, organised by the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI).

绿帽献妻 reports this year鈥檚 AITF has the theme: 鈥淢obility Options for Transportation, Trade Financing, and Taxation鈥�.

The conglomerate, at the weekend, also said participants were seen milling around the company鈥檚 other business units, including Dangote Fertilizer, Dangote Sugar, NASCON (Dangote Salt) and Dangote Cement.

Peter Ibrahim, a participant and block moulder, told reporters: 鈥淚 am here at the Dangote booth to find out what business and job opportunities are available at the Dangote Refinery. We know the company must have created several opportunities.鈥�

Speaking in the same vein, Sale Sagir, a cement dealer, noted: 鈥淟et me be honest. I came to this Trade Fair because of Dangote Group.

鈥淚 sell cement, but now I have come to find out what it takes to be a distributed of other products, especially the Dangote Petroleum products.鈥�

Speaking at the company鈥檚 Special Day, Fatima Wali-Abdurrahman, Senior Adviser to Dangote, Group President of DIL, on Special Projects and Strategic Relations, said the Dangote Group had contributed to growing the Nigerian economy through transportation, trade financing, and taxation.

Wali-Abdurrahman stated: 鈥淔urthermore, during the construction of the Dangote Refinery, we had to construct a jetty in Lekki Free Zone to handle our bulk cargoes (including one of the two largest cranes in the world), that we imported during the construction stage.

鈥淭oday, we are exporting our products to a number of African countries through the same port.

鈥淲e also plan to ease the pressure on the roads from the Refinery by transporting finished petroleum products to other ports by along the Nigerian coast by sea, for further distribution to the hinterland.鈥�

According to Dangote鈥檚 aide, the company is also investing in Compressed Natural Gas (CNG).

She also said: 鈥淚n an effort to reduce our carbon footprint and also reduce costs, over the past decade, we have converted about a third of our fleet so far. This is an ongoing process, till we convert the entire fleet.鈥�

The company is investing hugely in the agricultural subsector of the economy, assuring that the company鈥檚 products will soon hit the market, Wali-Abdurrahman added.

Speaking earlier at the Special Day in Abuja, Chief Emeka Obegolu, President of ACCI, described the Dangote Group as the engineroom for Nigeria鈥檚 industrilisation.

Chief Obegolu, represented at the annual event by Aisha Ado Abdullahi, ACCI Vice President Legal, commended the company for what he said was an 鈥渦nwavering commitment to Nigeria鈥檚 development.鈥�

He added: 鈥淭he taxes paid by the Group have contributed significantly to national revenue, funding infrastructure projects, and social programs that benefit millions of Nigerians.鈥�

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