After committing over $700 million to land acquisition, infrastructure, equipment, workforce training, and locally based projects nationwide, the Dangote Sugar Refinery has increased its efforts to make Nigeria self-sufficient in sugar production.
At the Dangote Group’s Special Day at the ongoing Lagos International Trade Fair, the Group Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Sugar Refinery, Ravindra Singhvi, said that the company’s significant investment seeks to hasten Nigeria’s sugar backward integration program.
To meet different customer demands, Singhvi also revealed the company’s new product line, stock keeping units (SKUs), which come in ten-gram, two-hundred-fifty-gram, five-hundred-gram, and one-kilogram packages.
The News Chronicle gathered that Dangote’s move fits the National Sugar Master Plan (NSMP) of the Federal Government, which aims to decrease Nigeria’s reliance on imported raw sugar and increase local output through commercial-scale agriculture and refining.
Executive Director for Commercial Operations at Dangote Group, Fatima Aliko-Dangote, reinforced the company’s bigger aim of industrializing Nigeria. She maintained that complete industrialization is the basis of job creation, economic diversity, and value addition. Represented by Funmi Sanni, Group Head of Sales and Marketing at Dangote Cement, she highlighted the company’s ongoing projects—among them the proposed expansion of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery from 650,000 barrels per day to 1.4 million barrels per day by 2028.
She further said that Dangote Polypropylene and Dangote Fertilizer Limited are prepared to further support the national economy. Moreover, under development with Ethiopian Investment Holdings is a $2.5 billion urea fertilizer facility intended to generate thousands of jobs and increase agricultural production throughout Africa.
Gabriel Idahosa, president of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), referred to the Dangote Group as a model of resilience and innovation, noting that consistent investment, job creation, and industrial leadership by the company support lifting Nigeria’s economy even in trying circumstances.
He said that turning Nigeria’s production capacity into real economic expansion relied on innovative industrial strategies and public-private partnerships such as Dangote’s current initiative.
