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Toured the Dangote Refinery in Lekki, Lagos State, Nigeria, at the invitation of Dangote Group President and CEO
@AlikoDangote
ahead of our groundbreaking ceremony for the Dangote East African Refinery in Lamu, Kenya, next week.

The refinery in Nigeria is a massive investment with a crude oil refining capacity of 700,000 barrels a day and produces more than 100 million litres of petrol, diesel and aviation fuel every day. The company has built 120km of sea cables to move crude from ships to the refinery.

This huge achievement is a testament of what African governments, investors and financial institutions can do together.

The refinery whose construction we launch in Kenya next week will be bigger. It will transform the petroleum sector in our country and region, providing fuel reliability and security, scaling up industrialisation and creating 60,000 jobs.

When the refinery is completed, spin off industries will emerge, including the production of fertilisers, chemicals, and packaging.

HacheNoire:
His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) and Lagos state reposition Nigeria on the world map!

With the rate of progress and development, Lagos might need purchase Ogun state. The state is already an open air concentration camp and the people will welcome such.

HacheNoire:
His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) and Lagos state reposition Nigeria on the world map!

With the rate of progress and development, Lagos might need purchase Ogun state. The state is already an open air concentration camp and the people will welcome such.

wellmax:
Isn’t it this man that insulted our sensibilities last time.

Did he come with an interpreter to understand Dangotes English?

givedemwotowoto:
Give them a few years and they’ll have theirs while Nigeria is still struggling, if we allow Tinubu continue to give us mediocre leadership.

That’s how Korea had no cars when Nigeria engineers were manufacturing cars

educatedfool:
Let's be factual. The Dangote Refinery is a private investment by Aliko Dangote and the Dangote Group. It was conceived, financed and constructed as a Dangote project long before Tinubu became president. Dangote's own corporate history identifies the refinery as a 2023 project, while its operations began in January 2024.

So attaching the refinery's existence or development to Tinubu personally is misleading. You can credit any government for policies or support that affected its operations, but the refinery itself is Dangote's investment, not Tinubu's achievement.

edogu:
E be like say part of the money generated through IPO will be used for this construction oil refinery in Kenya.

Gotocourt:
You see why the bandit is selling shares, disturbing our lives on radio and TV. Even monie point POS is selling Dangote IPO

givedemwotowoto:
Give them a few years and they’ll have theirs while Nigeria is still struggling, if we allow Tinubu continue to give us mediocre leadership.

That’s how Korea had no cars when Nigeria engineers were manufacturing cars

dewiseacre:
I thought presidents would usually receive other presidents when they come into their countries. Who officially received Kenya's number one into Lagos, Nigeria? Is Tinubu back ni?

abc115:
Kenya President Visits Dangote Refinary In Ibeju, Lagos


Source

educatedfool:
Let's be factual. The Dangote Refinery is a private investment by Aliko Dangote and the Dangote Group. It was conceived, financed and constructed as a Dangote project long before Tinubu became president. Dangote's own corporate history identifies the refinery as a 2023 project, while its operations began in January 2024.

So attaching the refinery's existence or development to Tinubu personally is misleading. You can credit any government for policies or support that affected its operations, but the refinery itself is Dangote's investment, not Tinubu's achievement.

dewiseacre:
I thought presidents would usually receive other presidents when they come into their countries. Who officially received Kenya's number one into Lagos, Nigeria? Is Tinubu back ni?

educatedfool:
Let's be factual. The Dangote Refinery is a private investment by Aliko Dangote and the Dangote Group. It was conceived, financed and constructed as a Dangote project long before Tinubu became president. Dangote's own corporate history identifies the refinery as a 2023 project, while its operations began in January 2024.

So attaching the refinery's existence or development to Tinubu personally is misleading. You can credit any government for policies or support that affected its operations, but the refinery itself is Dangote's investment, not Tinubu's achievement.

And just in case you still underrate what creating an enabling environment is, here is a brief summary of why, not creating one can mean thousands of jobs and opportunities lost for a state..... please this lesson below has nothing to do with simply putting money in an interest yielding account which any lazy and visionless governor can do.

* Note, there is also a bonus lesson from Daddy Dangote, about securing loans and not using them

AndroBlaze:
The problem you will have with your assertion, is that the owner of the business, the man who created it, the man who staked his wealth on it, has said over and over again that without Tinubu's support he would have never been able to actualise it.

So please, should we call Dangote a liar?

Please, this is not like the case of another former governor who is causing trouble everywhere by claiming his achievement was leaving balance for someone to invest in banks to earn interest while his citizens were pouring into other states in search of opportunities and work to feed their family.

It is not like the case of that governor, whose golden investment was putting the state's money in his family owned brewery and then watching the stock of that brewery crash with the state's investment being almost worthless.

This is from the horse's mouth, he started making these statements and acknowledging him even before he became president....this is not revisionism and go and verify oooo

educatedfool:
Let's be factual. The Dangote Refinery is a private investment by Aliko Dangote and the Dangote Group. It was conceived, financed and constructed as a Dangote project long before Tinubu became president. Dangote's own corporate history identifies the refinery as a 2023 project, while its operations began in January 2024.

So attaching the refinery's existence or development to Tinubu personally is misleading. You can credit any government for policies or support that affected its operations, but the refinery itself is Dangote's investment, not Tinubu's achievement.

FreeStuffsNG:
So the President of Kenya 'sneaked' into Lagos on pilgrimage and educative tough of our own Dangote Refinery, Lekki , Lagos, Nigeria. Smh.

See the comment of my Kenyan brother again. Your President just came from Lagos to learn yet you are still not giving the due honour to Nigeria.