Dangote To Supply 24-hour Power To Lagos

Lagos—President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko
Dangote yesterday said plans have been concluded
to construct a gas pipeline to address power supply
challenges in Lagos State.
He disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the
office of the Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi
Ambode.
He said; “We also assured him that we are going to
do a Gas Pipeline from Bonny (River State) to pass
under the sea (to Lagos.) When it is completed,
Lagos state will never ever experience blackout.
There will be electricity 24 hours a day.”
Addressing newsmen after the meeting with
Ambode, Dangote said they also discussed the
ongoing construction of the largest fertilizer plant
of two to three million tonnes of Uranium and
Amonia in the Lekki Free Trade Zone, Ibeju-Lekki.
VISIT: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi
Ambode (right) and President Dangote Group,
Alhaji Aliko Dangote (left)and during Dangote's
courtesy visit to Ambode at the Lagos House, Ikeja,
yesterday.
He noted that the company is also building ”the
largest ever single refinery of 650,000 barrels per
day, which is by far more than the consumption of
Nigeria and that would satisfy our consumption at
least for the next seven to 10 years by the time
we finish.”
All these projects Dangote said are no small
projects.
‘’We will have challenge in getting people to work
there, because at the height of it, there will be
close to 38,000 people working at the same
location, this is something that we have to partner
with the state government.
‘’Having 38,000 people on one site, not every one of
them will be from the community, others will be
from other states, there would be cultural issues
and all that, we need to integrate everybody to
ensure that the whole thing works out fine.”
He stressed that the visit afforded him the
opportunity to assure the governor of his
commitment to complete these ongoing projects
already embarked upon by the company.
The business mogul promised to continue to support
the state government initiatives geared towards
securing lives and properties, adding “I have
assured him that we really love doing business here,
it’s a friendly state for doing business.”
According to him, “There are quite a lot of things
that will come along with creating so many jobs. I
think Lagos will be one of the fastest growing
cities in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.
‘’ I can assure you that we would do our own bit in
terms of your efforts in policing Lagos, for
security and whatever the need is, feel free to
call us, we would partner with you and whatever
you want us to do to make Lagos a better place”.
Responding, Ambode vowed to embark on strategies
that would open the state for new investors, aimed
at reducing the rate of unemployment in the state.
He said “I will just call on other investors that
wherever it is that we can assist we are willing and
ready to make sure that investors have
comfortable life and comfortable business profile
in Lagos State.”
The governor promised that his administration
would open up the state to attract new investors
and growth of existing business in the state,
adding that the bottom line “is to create jobs for
our youths.”