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Nigeria's Dangote Banks on Agriculture to Blow Up

Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote, plans to invest U.S.$3.8 billion in sugar and rice, and U.S.$800 million in milk production in the next three years.

Nigeria: Dangote, Bloomberg, Others Discuss Use of Technology to Tackle Poverty

Premium Times, 21 September 2017

Bloomberg Philanthropies hosted by former mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, inaugurated its first Global Business Forum with an astounding line up of global innovators,… Read more »
Africa: Africa Will Become the Food Basket of the World — Dangote

Daily Trust, 20 September 2017

In a packed room at the headquarters of global law firm Shearman and Sterling LLC high level business leaders and international diplomats invited by the Corporate Council for… Read more »
Nigeria: Dangote Signs $450 Million Jumbo Sugar Production MOU With Niger State

Premium Times, 23 August 2017

In another bold move for self-sufficiency in sugar production through the government's backward integration policy, the Pan African Conglomerate, Dangote Group, on Wednesday in… Read more »
Africa: Africa's Agric Take-Off to Make Billionaires, From 'Poor Men's Fields'

The Herald, 15 September 2017

Asked where the next crop of African billionaires will come from, president of the African Development Bank, Nigerian Dr Akinwumi Adesina, without batting an eyelid, declared that… Read more »
Nigeria: Why We Don't Manufacture Cube Sugar - Dangote

Vanguard, 21 September 2017

Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc has given insights into why the company is not manufacturing cube sugar despite having invested over N400 billion in backward integration projects in the… Read more »
Nigeria: 5 of the 12 Million Jobs Needed in Africa Must Be Created in Nigeria - Dangote

Vanguard, 21 September 2017

Africa's richest man and Nigeria's indisputable business leader Aliko Dangote has told a packed room in New York that he is hoping that oil prices will remain low to wean Nigeria… Read more »