Aliko Dangote

That could change with many power stations due to start drawing on locally produced gas and next year Nigeria's most successful businessman Aliko Dangote is due to open a 600 000 barrel-a-day oil refinery and fertiliser plant which will sell its produce across the region (AC Vol 58 No 6 Mega-projects await reforms)...

Among the non-politicians Aliko Dangote has ruled himself out...

Reaching policy consensus will be critical for three big-ticket energy projects to take off: a 500 000 barrel a day oil refinery near Lagos is being built by cement magnate Aliko Dangote at a cost of over US$15 billion; two more export trains costing $25 bn...

A quick industrial gain would be getting natural gas to Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote's cement factory in Mtwara...

So dysfunctional are the distribution companies that the cement billionaire Aliko Dangote has called for them to be renationalised and then for their assets to be auctioned to seriously wealthy companies and individuals such as himself (AC Vol 57 No 13 A new deal in the East)...

Aliko Dangote's Group is building large cement plants in Ethiopia Kenya Tanzania and Zambia...

to Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote's group of companies to build cement plants...

Businesses damaged and disrupted include Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote's Dangote Cement Derba Midroc Cement belonging to Saudi-Ethiopian tycoon Mohamed Hussein Ali al Amoudi the Tigray Development Association's Selam Bus the China-Africa Overseas Leather Factory the Indian flower-grower Supra Floritech Netherlands' farming company Solagrow and two tourist lodges on Langano Lake...

It would certainly help if Nigeria's top industrialist Aliko Dangote has as much success with his oil refining and petrochemical businesses as he has with cement production...

in Aliko Dangote's refinery project in Nigeria (AC Vol 52 No 24 Selling the state and Vol 56 No 9 Rising hopes falling revenues)...

Regardless of whether Buhari presides over the privatisation of the four rickety state refineries three of which he had built when he was Oil Minister in the 1970s he is said to back investors such as Aliko Dangote and his refinery project near Lekki just outside Lagos (AC Vol 54 No 18 Cracks widen in the PDP)...