By 2020, Dangote Refinery will start operations and the impact will be seen in the socioeconomic ecosystem of Lagos state.
The project is located in Lekki Free Trade Zone on a vast land mass of 2,200 hectares, an area eight times bigger than the entire Victoria Island in Lagos.
R-L: Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode (2nd right), with President of Togo, Mr. Faure Gnassingbe; Minister of Trade, Investment & Industry, Mr. Okechukwu Enelamah and President, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote during the visit of the Togolese President to the Dangote Refinery at the Lekki Free Trade Zone, Lekki, Lagos in 2017.
With Dangote Refinery, the biggest refinery in Africa's largest megacity, Lagos may become the second biggest economy in the continent.
The refinery will create more than one million new jobs from industries producing petroleum naphtha, gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, jet fuel and fuel oils and petrochemicals feed stock like ethylene and propylene.
Enemies of the State are sponsoring malicious opinions of their political campaigns of calumny against President Muhammadu Buhari and the national ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) published in Nigerian newspapers and the foreign press, including Bloomberg and New York Times.
These enemies of Nigeria include sponsors of the Boko Haram terrorists.
The following article was written by a member of Nairaland, Africa's largest online news and information forum in reply to the malicious report, Army Habits Die Hard as Nigeria's Buhari Defies Court Orders by Dulue Mbachu and Yinka Ibukun published by Bloomberg on July 30, 2018.
Why Sambo Dasuki Should Not Be Released
Arguably the most high-profile detainee is Sambo Dasuki, once a security adviser to Buhari’s predecessor Goodluck Jonathan. Charged with offenses related to money laundering and diverting money supposed to be used to buy arms to fight Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Dasuki has been held for three years as bail orders, including from an Economic Community of West African States court, have been ignored.
You even mentioned Dasuki is a high profile-detainee.
Anybody that wants this cruel rogue released without the country knowing the main root of the matter is nothing but a fellow rogue and devil.
A man who hundreds of soldiers died on the battlefield and was charged with offenses related to money laundering and diverting money supposed to be used to buy arms to fight Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
Pieter de Villiers, Clickatell Group CEO (PRNewsfoto/Clickatell Limited)
Clickatell Ushers in New Era for African Enterprises With WhatsApp Business Solution
REDWOOD CITY, California, August 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --
Global customer engagement company, Clickatell, is an authorized WhatsApp Business Solution Provider. Clickatell's customers on WhatsApp Business solutions include Absa Bank, GTBank, First Bank of Nigeria and United Bank of Africa. These banks are partnering with Clickatell to roll out their chat banking capabilities on WhatsApp across Africa.
WhatsApp, a simple, reliable, and private way to talk to anyone in the world, is currently one of the most popular messaging services around the globe. More than 1.5 billion people in over 180 countries use WhatsApp to stay in touch, anytime and anywhere.
‘Feed Nigeria’ Spurred by CIAT Agreement with Alluvial on Groundbreaking Block Farming Initiative
The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) today announces a partnership with Alluvial Agriculture, a collective farming business grouping thousands of smallholders in Nigeria.
Dimieari Von Kemedi, Alluvial’ Managing Director.
CIAT, a research center for the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) – a global research partnership for a food-secure future supported by private foundations, national governments and multilateral development agencies – will sign its agreement with Alluvial on the opening day of the Feed Nigeria Summit, the biggest annual gathering focused on this nation’s frontline role in addressing global food security. CIAT Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Debisi Araba, and Alluvial Managing Director, Dimieari Von Kemedi, will address the conference before signing their agreement today (Monday) at 3pm in Abuja.
Keynote Address by his Excellency, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, San, Gcon, Vice President, The Federal Republic of Nigeria, at The Google for Nigeria Event in Lagos, on Thursday, July 26, 2018
LAGOS, Nigeria, July 27, 2018/ -- Keynote Address by his Excellency, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, San, Gcon, Vice President, The Federal Republic of Nigeria, at The Google for Nigeria Event in Lagos, on Thursday, July 26, 2018:
From Silicon Valley to Crypto Valley, those who know me call me a startup evangelist and they know I am the number one Nigerian blogging about blockchain technologies and Cryptocurrency. Thousands know I have two high tech apps in startups incubators since 2006 to date. My iPost Nigeria mobile video app was the only Nigerian tech innovation shortlisted for the 2014 Fund for Internet Research and Development FIRE Africa Awards and also developing my high tech urban taxi service app. Therefore, I am well informed to say that the dynamic government of President Buhari has done for the technological development of Nigeria what previous presidents failed to do.
°In Q1 and Q2 2018 alone, Nigerian startups have raised $82.9 million in funding and $72.5 million — about 87% — of this total sum is from foreign investors including Silicon Valley.
The Nigerian digital economy is projected to generate US$88billion and create up to three million jobs in the next three years.
UK Support is Helping Nigeria Move Beyond Aid

LONDON, 20 July 2018 / PRN Africa / --
The International Development Secretary hails UK and Nigeria co-operation.
The International Development Secretary, Penny Mordaunt, hails UK and Nigeria co-operation and announces UK aid support to help rural communities become self-sufficient.
Ms Mordaunt has praised the close partnership between the UK and Nigeria, which is helping the West African country lay the foundations on which to build a sustainable future.
High-level representatives of more than 30 States in attendance included the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, July 17, 2018/ -- On 16 and 17 July 2018, an event was held at the headquarters of International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “the Court”) (www.ICC-CPI.int), in The Hague, The Netherlands, to mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute of the ICC. High-level representatives of more than 30 States in attendance included the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, representatives of national Senates and Parliaments, Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Justice, as well as officials of international and regional organisations, civil society and academia. Speakers reiterated their support to justice and accountability for the gravest crimes listed under the Rome Statute.
The event featured a keynote address by the President of Nigeria, H.E. Mr Muhammadu Buhari, as well as remarks by the President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, Mr O-Gon Kwon; ICC President, Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji; ICC Prosecutor, Mrs Fatou Bensouda; ICC Registrar, Mr Peter Lewis; UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and Legal Counsel, Mr Miguel de Serpa Soares; Chair of the Trust Fund for Victims (“TFV”), Mr Motoo Noguchi, and other high-level guests.
Graca Machel Keynote Speech – Mandela Rhodes Foundation “100 for the 100th”– July 14, 2018
[Since 2005, 444 Mandela Rhodes Scholars from 23 African Countries have been awarded the Scholarship]
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, as we all know there are countless events taking place across the world in honour and celebration of the centenary of the birth of Africa’s great son, Nelson Mandela. Every aspect of Madiba’s life and passions will be recalled.
