By Dr. Princess C. Mutisya When Aliko Dangote announced a US$1 billion investment in Zimbabwe – centered on a 2,000-kilometer (1,243-mile) fuel pipeline stretching from Namibia’s...
By John Dale Aliko Dangote is Africa’s largest real estate player. Yet no one calls him a real estate mogul. Why? Because he doesn’t flip plots...
Aliko Dangote, Chairman and CEO of Dangote Group, has announced ambitious expansion plans in Ethiopia, including doubling the company’s cement production capacity and investing in new...
The Dangote Group has inaugurated Africa’s largest tomato processing facility in northern Nigeria, a US$20 million initiative aimed at reducing the country’s dependence on imported tomatoes,...
Bloomberg | African billionaire Aliko Dangote is wealthier than ever now that his long-awaited Nigerian oil refinery is up and running. But his mood suggests a...
The US$20 billion Lagos-based Dangote Refinery is set to begin supplying Premium Motor Spirit (petrol), marking a major shift for Nigeria as it reduces its dependence...
Aliko Dangote, the Founder and Chairman of the Dangote Group, announced that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited no longer holds a 20 percent stake...
Barring any last-minute changes, the US$20 billion Dangote Oil Refinery is set to be listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange by December 2024. Aliko Dangote, the...
Reuters | Nigeria’s Dangote oil refinery started supplying petroleum products to the local market on Tuesday, a company executive and fuel marketing associations said, a major...
Reuters | Shell Plc has made a final investment decision to build a gas supply facility in Nigeria to feed a fertilizer plant owned by Africa’s...
It is noteworthy that Aliko Dangote, the founder and CEO of the Dangote Group, has experienced a substantial increase in his net worth according to Bloomberg’s...
Reuters | The Dangote oil refinery in Nigeria on Friday received its first cargo of 1 million barrels of crude oil from Shell International Trading and...
CNBC Africa | The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has revealed plans to list the US$20 billion Dangote Petroleum Refinery on the Nigerian Exchange (NGX),...
Reuters | Nigeria’s state oil firm NNPC Ltd will supply the new 650,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Dangote oil refinery with up to six cargoes of crude oil...
By Christina Katsouris When Aliko Dangote, an industrialist from the northern state of Kano, first announced the project in 2013, analysts were skeptical. Dozens of proposed...
S&P Global | The long-awaited Dangote refinery – billed as a game-changer for Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa – will receive its first cargo of crude in...
By Nnaemeka Vincent Emodi Nigeria’s new Dangote petroleum refinery is Africa’s biggest – it will produce 650,000 barrels a day, giving it the potential to address...
Reuters | Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will commission the multi-billion dollar Dangote oil refinery in two weeks, a presidency spokesperson said, setting up the plant for...
Bloomberg | Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, agreed with a Chinese firm to construct a 6 million-ton cement plant to expand output and exports in his...
Bloomberg | Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, agreed with a Chinese firm to construct a 6 million-ton cement plant to expand output and exports in his...
Members of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) who recently paid a visit to Aliko Dangote’s multi-billion-dollar refinery disclosed that the refinery is...
Bloomberg | The giant refinery being built in Nigeria by Africa’s richest person, Aliko Dangote, will finally start operations by mid-2023, according to state oil company,...
Bloomberg | Nigeria has appointed Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, to lead a committee commissioned with eliminating malaria in the West African nation as the mosquito-borne...
Bloomberg | When Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest person, decided to construct a refinery in southern Nigeria on a plot of swampland almost half the size of...
Reuters | Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote opened a 3-million-tonne fertilizer plant at a cost of US$2.5 billion on Tuesday to target African and foreign markets even...
Bloomberg | Nigeria’s giant new Dangote oil refinery will start processing crude in the third quarter of this year. Mechanical work on the refinery is complete...
Dangote might be an example of a successful and dynamically expanding manufacturing firm in Nigeria. But structural transformation across the Nigerian economy remains very limited.
The NNPC said it had signed term sheets with Dangote Group for the stake in its 650,000-barrel-per-day oil refinery
Sub-Saharan Africa is poised to expand 4.1 percent next year, as economies recover from the pandemic
Dangote Group will double cement production in Cameroon
Nigerian serial entrepreneur and philanthropist, Aliko Dangote, has proposed that African states introduce free movement of persons, goods, services and capital across the continent, based on...
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote typifies the new “African lions” whose business empires are winning a competitive edge over foreign multinationals because of their better grasp of...
The Dangote Group has revealed that its US$9 billion oil refinery will be on stream by December 2017. The Dangote refinery, located in Lekki, Lagos State,...
A Chinese state-owned engineering company has signed a deal worth $4.3bn (£2.8bn) to build factories for a Nigerian cement company run by Africa’s richest man, Aliko...
Dangote Group founder and chairman, Aliko Dangote, has revealed that he is expanding his cement empire to Asia and it will be operational in 30 months....
The Dangote Group on Thursday (one day ahead of schedule) opened a US$500 million cement plant in Ethiopia, one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies where a construction...
Dangote Cement’s pretax profit fell 3.2 percent to 184.68 billion naira (US$928 million) last year due to a gas shortage to fire its plant and low...
A new US$9 billion oil refinery producing 500,000 barrels per day being developed by serial entrepreneur Aliko Dangote, is expected to come onstream in Nigeria by...
The Dangote Group has revealed that the US$400 million cement plant in Masaiti district, in the Zambian Copperbelt will be commissioned by the end this month....
Dangote Cement has received the first cargoes of raw materials for its new cement works at Douala, Cameroon. The delivery consists of clinker, gypsum and pozzolan,...
Aliko Dangote, Founder and Chairman of the Dangote Group speaks during the final session of the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Cape Town June...
Aliko Dangote – Founder and Chairman of the Dangote Group Construction work at the Dangote cement plant in Mtwara in southeastern Tanzania, which will produce 3...
Aliko Dangote, CEO and Founder of The Dangote Group speaks during the final session of the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting, June 6, 2008. PHOTO/Mike...
Aliko Dangote – Founder and Chairman of the Dangote Group Dangote Cement, a subsidiary company of Dangote Group, continues its dominance on the African continent, with...
Africa’s economic resurgence has been further boosted by over $68 billion in investment commitment following the just concluded World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa which ended...
Aliko Dangote, CEO of the Dangote Group, believes that Africa needs to have strong institutions to combat corruption. Dangote advised, “One of the greatest obstacles apart...
BUA Group, Honeywell and Dangote Group, in conjunction with similar manufacturing plants across Nigeria, are generating more than 15,000 megawatts of electricity used by the companies...
Aliko Dangote, Founder, President and Chief Executive of the Dangote Group. PHOTO/File The Dangote Group, funded and run by the world’s richest black man, Aliko Dangote,...
Aliko Dangote, Founder, President and Chief Executive of the Dangote Group speaks during the final session of the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Cape...
Aliko Dangote, Founder, President and CEO of the Dangote Group. PHOTO/Mike Hutchings/Reuters The Dangote Group, the Nigerian company founded and run by Aliko Dangote, plans to...
Aliko Dangote – founder and Chairman Dangote Group. PHOTO/File Dangote Cement reported a growth of 28.7 percent in revenue and 39.4 percent in profit for the...
Aliko Dangote – Chairman and CEO of the Dangote Group Africa’s largest asset manager, the South African-based Public Investment Corporation, will consider investing in more companies...
Aliko Dangote – founder and CEO of the Dangote Group (Reuters) – The Dangote Group said on Tuesday it will borrow US$3.3 billion to build a...
Aliko Dangote Aliko Dangote is on track to spend up to $15 billion pursuing investment opportunities on the African continent in the next 4-5 years. Dangote...
Aliko Dangote, founder and CEO Dangote Group/Industries (Reuters) – Dangote Industries, majority shareholder in Dangote Cement, on Monday sold 1.5 percent of its stake in Nigeria’s...
Aliko Dangote, President, Founder and Chief Executive of Nigeria’s Dangote Group speaks during the final session of the World Economic Forum on Africa. PHOTO/Mike Hutchings/Reuters Nigerian...
Founder and CEO of the Dangote Group., Aliko Dangote. PHOTO/File (Bloomberg) – Dangote Group CEO, Aliko Dangote, has revealed that he has secured US$4.25 billion to...
Aliko Dangote, President, Founder and CEO of The Dangote Group speaks during the final session of the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Cape Town...
Aliko Dangote The Dangote Group has applied for a silica exploration license in Ethiopia. Silica is the major raw material for glass manufacturing. The industrial group...
Aliko Dangote The Dangote Group has awarded Indian engineering company, Tata Consulting Engineers, a contract to provide project management consultancy services for its new US$1.9 billion...
Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive of Nigeria’s Dangote Group speaks during the final session of the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Cape Town...
Aliko Dangote The CEO and President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has urged African business men and women to increase their investment stake across the...
Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive of Nigeria’s Dangote Group speaks during the final session of the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Cape Town...
Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive of Nigeria’s Dangote Group speaks during the final session of the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Cape Town...
Aliko Dangote, founder, President and Chief Executive of the Dangote Group Sephaku Cement- a subsidiary of Dangote Cement and an indigenous player in South Africa’s cement...
Dangote cement’ Obajana plant. PHOTO/File World-class technology and innovative training has catalyzed the success of Dangote Group, one of the largest trading and manufacturing conglomerates operating...
Aliko Dangote, President and Chief Executive of Nigeria’s Dangote Group speaks during the final session of the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Cape Town...
Aliko Dangote Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote commissioned an expansion of his Obajana cement plant on Monday that raised its capacity to 10.25 million tonnes a year,...
Founder and CEO of the Dangote Group., Aliko Dangote. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote said his conglomerate needed to spend US$7.5 billion over the...
Aliko Dangote, president of Dangote Group (Bloomberg) – Tiger Brands Ltd. (TBS), South Africa’s largest food company, said it is in talks with Dangote Industries Ltd.,...
Nigerian billionaire., Aliko Dangote. PHOTO/File Construction work on the Dangote cement factory in Cameroon’s economic capital Douala that was stopped two weeks ago is to resume...
Her US$3 billion fortune makes Oprah Winfrey (pictured above), the wealthiest black person in America, a position she has held for years. But she is no...
Africa’s biggest producer of building material, Dangote Cement Plc., has registered a 23 percent increase in nine-month pre-tax profit as cement sales rose. Income in the...
(Reuters) – Nigerian cement manufacturer Dangote will spend US$ 4 million to build a cement plant in Congo Republic, the latest in a string of projects...
To be a successful entrepreneur in Africa, you must have raw courage, and blind perseverance to overcome mind-boggling bureaucracy and limited access to credit. In spite...
