SALES recorded by Dangote Cement plants across Africa have significantly impacted on the revenue of the company for the first quarter ended on March 31, 2017 by 74 per cent to a whopping N208.2 billion.

HAVING perfected truck assembling in its Ikeja, Lagos plant, Dangote Sinotruk West Africa Limited is now set to commence construction work on its truck cabin line next month. The cabin line is expected to be ready by next year and would take the local content level of Dangote Sinotruk vehicles to about 50 per cent when completed.

DANGOTE Flour has unveiled new improved pasta products called ‘Ecccellente, in bid to to grow its market equity in Africa. The re-vamped pasta, is expected to reduce the dependency on rice consumption by Nigerians.

THE divestment of Dangote FlourMill Plc from its noodles business will result in more value accretion to its shareholders, operators in the Nigerian capital market have said. According to them, selling the noodles business will allow the company to concentrate on the pasta and flour businesses where it has efficiency and competitive advantage.

DANGOTE Flour Mills, yesterday, announced it has exited its noodles business and has sold the assets of Dangote Noodles to Dufil Prima Foods, makers of Indomie noodles. The company said in a statement that its regular business portfolio review reveal that the noodle business was not strategic to its vision.

The President, African Development Bank (AfDB), Mr Akinwumi Adesina, says Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, will become the largest exporter of rice in the world by 2021.

Africa’s richest man and Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote who turned 60 on Monday, April 10 had an exclusive birthday held in his honor. Friends, family, employees and well-wishers were present to take photos and celebrate the new milestone with him.

TRAGEDY struck on Tuesday when one Dairu Murtala, a Dangote truck driver ran over three men killing them instantly at Arepo, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

The immediate-past Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi has described Alhaji Aliko Dangote as one Nigerian that believes in Nigeria and has demonstrated unparalleled patriotism to the Nigerian Project.

THUGS suspected to be agents of an Anambra-born business mogul (names withheld), have been fingered in the wanton destruction of the property belonging to an Onitsha –based company, Bontus Oil and Gas Ltd. Bontus Oil and Gas is currently working out an arrangement with Dangote Group to be its main agent in Onitsha and its environs.

President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed the entrepreneurial skills of Alhaji Aligo Dangote, saying that he provided employment without ethic and religious considerations.

Dangote Flour Mills Plc and Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc have recorded total revenue of N275 billion in the financial year ended December 31, 2016, representing an increase of 84.8 per cent from N275. 5 billion of the corresponding period of 2015.

GOVERNOR Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, has charged the President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, to invest in the petro-chemical industry by taking advantage of the huge deposits of gas in the state.

Twelve firms bought 30 per cent of the special foreign exchange sales of $367 million conducted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on March 2nd, 2017.

THE Federal Government weekend in Ibese, Ogun State, confirmed that Nigeria had attained self-sufficiency in the production of cement and indeed now an exporter of the commodity, ascribing the feat to Dangote Cement which spare headed the backward integration policy introduced by the government.