Dangote Plans to provide 24hrs Electricity in Lagos

Dangote Group has  planned to construct a gas pipeline to address power supply challenges in Lagos State.

Speaking at the  courtesy visit to the office of the Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, the President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, said plans have been concluded to remedy the power menace in Lagos.

“ There will be 24 hours electricity in Lagos as we have assured him (Gov. Ambode) 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,” he said

Vanguard has it that Dangote 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.

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 noted.

In accordance to Dangote's view, Ambode promised 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.”