Dansa Group, a
subsidiary of Dangote Group of the Companies, says it had concluded plans to
invest £36m in the establishment of Africa’s largest energy food plant in
Nigeria.
The Minister of
Agriculture, Akinwunmi Adesina, reportedly stated this in New York during an
interview with journalists.
Adesina said the
President, Dansa Group, Sanni Dangote, who broke the news at the meeting of a
High Level World Advisory Group, in New York, said the move was aimed at
supporting the country’s agriculture programme.
The meeting had in attendance global leaders like the
Chairman, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates; a former United
Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan; President, International Fund for
Agriculture Development, Kanayo Nwanze; and
President, African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuke.
Adesina said the
world leaders would not waste their time in a venture that would not work and
that they were very excited about Nigeria’s agricultural transformation agenda
and recognized the fact that the country needed to diversify the economy.
He said, “Already,
Bill Gates is spending millions of dollars in Nigeria supporting this agenda,
the African Development Bank is putting in $500m.
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