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Aliko Dangote Reaffirms Customer Focus at Nascon 2025 Dinner
Aliko Dangote reiterates commitment to customer partnerships, digital growth, and supply chain efficiency at Nascon 2025 Customers’ Dinner in Abuja
Aliko Dangote, President of the Dangote Group, has reaffirmed the conglomerate’s commitment to customer partnerships, supply chain strengthening, and digital growth during the Nascon 2025 Customers’ Dinner and Awards Night in Abuja.
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Addressing stakeholders, Dangote said the event reflected both the group’s achievements and future strategy.
“This is an event that actually reflects not only how far we have come as a group, but also how we intend to move forward,” he said.
Dangote stressed that customer partnerships remain central to the company’s business model, noting that his role overseeing multiple markets and consumer segments underscores the importance of alignment with client needs.
“Strong customer partnerships are the foundation of sustainable growth in our group,” he said.
The business magnate highlighted recent transformations, including expanded manufacturing capacity, modernised distribution systems, and an enhanced brand portfolio, all driven by market realities and customer feedback.
Dangote acknowledged distributors and trade partners for supporting product launches and market expansion during challenging macroeconomic conditions.
He added that the awards presented at the event recognise excellence across the company’s customer base.
Looking ahead, Dangote outlined the group’s investment priorities, linking them directly to customer engagement.
“We will continue to invest in brand equity, supply chain efficiency, sustainability, and digital capabilities. But these investments only create value when aligned with customer realities,” he said.
Olakunle Alake, Chairman of the Board of Nascon Allied Industries Plc, said the company’s long-term growth depends on collaboration with customers and consistent market execution.
“Long-term growth is built on collaboration and not on transactions,” he said, stressing that customer service is both a core value and a strategic asset.
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Financial results underscore the company’s performance, with unaudited statements showing a 222 per cent profit increase to N15.6bn for the half-year ended June 30, 2025. Revenue rose 55 per cent to N78.2bn, and operating profit surged 196 per cent to N21.3bn.
TotalEnergies and Nigerian independent energy company AMNI International have taken the Final Investment Decision on the $800 million Ima Gas Project, more than five decades after the gas field was discovered.
The Ima Gas Project, located in shallow waters across Oil Mining Leases 112 and 117 near Bonny Island, Rivers State, is expected to begin production in 2028 and reach a plateau of 350 million cubic feet of gas per day.
The development is expected to play a major role in supplying feed gas to Nigeria LNG, with the Ima field projected to provide about one-third of the additional gas required for the ongoing Train 7 expansion.
Train 7 is expected to increase Nigeria LNG’s liquefaction capacity from 22 million tonnes per annum to 30 million tonnes per annum, strengthening Nigeria’s capacity to process and export liquefied natural gas.
The Ima field was discovered in 1973 but remained undeveloped for more than 50 years. The Final Investment Decision provides the commercial and financial basis for finally developing the long-dormant resource.
Under the development plan, TotalEnergies will operate the project with a 40 per cent interest, while AMNI will hold the remaining 60 per cent.
The field will be developed using a single offshore platform connected to Nigeria LNG’s facility on Bonny Island through a 22-kilometre pipeline.
TotalEnergies said its investment in the project is more than $600 million, while the Federal Government described the overall Final Investment Decision as an $800 million investment.
At the FID signing ceremony in Abuja, TotalEnergies Exploration and Production Nigeria Managing Director, Mathieu Bouyer, described the decision as the culmination of a development process that had stretched across several decades.
He said the project reflected increased confidence in Nigeria’s investment environment and highlighted reforms targeting the non-associated gas sector as part of the factors that helped make the development commercially viable.
President Bola Tinubu welcomed the investment, saying the project demonstrated the potential of reforms introduced to reduce the cost and time required to develop oil and gas projects.
The President said the government had introduced incentives aimed specifically at unlocking onshore and shallow-water gas projects that had remained undeveloped for years.
He said the Ima development would create opportunities for Nigerian businesses, engineers, technicians and contractors, while generating jobs, economic activity in host communities and additional export earnings.
The project is also expected to have a strong Nigerian content component. TotalEnergies said all key contractors for the development would be Nigerian companies, while about 60 per cent of the workforce during the development phase is expected to come from host communities.
The development will incorporate measures aimed at reducing emissions. TotalEnergies said the platform would receive electricity from shore, operate without routine flaring and use permanent methane detection and monitoring systems.
The Federal Government said the project is part of efforts to turn Nigeria’s large natural gas reserves into productive assets capable of supporting industrialisation, energy supply, jobs and export earnings.
Special Adviser to the President on Energy, Olu Verheijen, said the Ima development illustrated the importance of creating commercial and investment conditions that allow previously stranded resources to be developed.
The government also noted that Nigerian financial institutions arranged 77 per cent of the project’s financing, further highlighting the participation of domestic financial institutions in the development.
For Nigeria LNG, the project comes as the company continues work on the Train 7 expansion, which is designed to increase the Bonny Island plant’s liquefaction capacity and strengthen the country’s position in the global LNG market.
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