Dangote Sinotruk West Africa opened a fully knocked down CKD truck assembly plant in Lagos on Sunday.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu were present at the inauguration.
Sanwo-Olu claimed in a statement published on X that the Ikeja plant, which can build 10,000 trucks a year, can employ roughly 3,000 people in Nigeria.
Sanwo-Olu said,
Akpabio and Sanwo-Olu visited the Dangote refinery in Lekki, a part of Lagos state, on June 8.
Sanwo-Olu stated during the trip that it was an honour that the refinery was built in “our time, our state, and our country.”
He added,
Sanwo-Olu added that he is confident Nigeria is on track to achieve its estimated $1 trillion GDP by 2030 with an investment such as the refinery.
TimesNow.com.ng reported that Devakumar Edwin, the executive director of the Dangote Group, announced on Tuesday, March 2, that the Dangote Refinery has started supplying petroleum products to the local market.
As reported by Reuters, this was verified by executives belonging to various associations of petroleum marketers.
The president of the Independent Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Abubakar Maigandi, spoke about selling diesel into the local market.
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
