The Dangote Group has reassured the public that its growing business operations across Nigeria and the rest of Africa will create substantial job opportunities. This assurance was given during the company's Special Day celebration at the recently concluded Nasarawa Trade Fair in Lafia.
Fatima Wali-Abdurrahman, Regional Director and Special Adviser to the President of Dangote Group, stated that as the company expands its investments and scales up operations across its Strategic Business Units, new jobs and roles are being generated. Dangote Group is currently Nigeria's second-largest employer after the Federal Government.
Last week in Lagos, Group President and CEO Aliko Dangote highlighted that expanding the Dangote Petroleum Refinery from 650,000 barrels per day to 1.4 million could attract up to 95,000 skilled workers during peak construction.
Wali-Abdurrahman, represented by the company’s National Assembly Lead Shuaibu Abdullahi, noted that Nasarawa State hosts Dangote’s largest Backwards Integration project in the sugar sector: the Nasarawa Sugar Company Limited (NSCL). She added that the project's completion would unlock a new wave of employment, creating expanded opportunities for the people of Nasarawa State and Nigeria.
According to the Regional Director, the conglomerate is expected to generate thousands of direct and indirect jobs from expansion in key businesses, including petroleum, fertiliser, cement, agriculture, sugar, and salt. Speaking on the company’s Vision 2030, she said: “The Vision is a commitment to transform Nigeria and Africa from a consumption-based economy into a production-based powerhouse.”
She further emphasized: “Nasarawa State occupies a strategic position in our long-term investment plans. It is home to Dangote’s Nasarawa Sugar Company Limited (NSCL) in Tunga, which, when completed, will be one of the biggest sugar investments on the African continent.”
Earlier, Mrs Catherine Bako, Director of Industry and Investment at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Investment, stated that the Nasarawa State government, under Governor Abdullahi Sule, has provided an enabling environment for private-sector investors. She said the government has made ease of doing business a cardinal objective.
The Director of Trade at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Investment, Dr Ahmed Agbo, told the audience at a panel session on the Dangote Special Day that the state has numerous mineral resources that would attract potential investors.
Chairman of the Nigerian Association of Small-Scale Industrialists (NASSI), Nidan Sambo Manasseh, said: “The Dangote Vision 2030 is about expansion, scale, and self-sufficiency.”
