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Nigeria: Dangote Fertiliser Plant to Create 7,000 Jobs

Isaac Aimurie

11 July 2011


The employment generation drive of the federal government is set to receive a boost. Indications emerged at the weekend that the planned Dangote Fertiliser Project in Edo State would provide a minimum of 7,000 jobs when it commences operations.

The project, according to the company, would provide jobs for both skilled and unskilled persons in addition to thousands of other complementary indirect jobs for artisans, traders and other allied businesses. Dangote is currently the chairman of the federal government's Job Creation Committee.

Meanwhile, the signing of the contract for the commencement of the fertiliser plant has thrown the Edo communities hosting the project into excitement as it also complements the job creation efforts of the state governor, Adams Oshiomhole.

Leaders of the host communities praised the resolve of Aliko Dangote, president of the Dangote Group, to site the project in their area.

Dangote had, during the contract-signing ceremony, assured the host communities that the project would provide immense job opportunities for them.

The federal government earmarked N50 billion for job creation in the 2011 budget. Stakeholders are of the view that the steps taken by the Dangote Group would go a long way in helping government tackle the scourge of unemployment in the country.

Dangote Group currently has over 25,000 employees, both in direct and indirect employment in its many companies which span oil and gas, manufacturing, steel and food production.

"The fertiliser plant will be an excellent example of how to utilise a substantial amount of the country's significant gas resources as raw material in the Ammonia-Urea fertiliser process. Ultimately, the project, when completed, will make the country self-sufficient in fertiliser production, thereby saving it the huge foreign reserves presently spent on importation of fertiliser," the company said in a statement.

With the agreement, Saipem is to build for the Dangote Group a fertiliser plant for the production of 7.700 MTPD of granulated Urea (two trains with a production capacity of 3,850 metric tons each per day), and it is expected to start production in 2014.

The plant will be the largest in Africa as its closest competitor has installed capacity of only 1,000 metric tons per day of Ammonia and 1,500 metric tons per day of Urea compared with the Dangote plant 2,200 metric tons per day for Ammonia and 3,850 metric tons per train per day of Urea.

The project will provide a major boost to the agriculture sector by significantly reducing the importation of fertiliser in Nigeria and ultimately removing the need for imports when the plant is in full production.


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