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Tinubu Congratulates Dangote on Appointment to World Bank’s Investment Lab
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Africa’s wealthiest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, on his appointment to the World Bank’s Private Sector Investment Lab. This is a body focused on driving investment and job creation in emerging economies.
Tinubu praised Dangote’s extensive experience in the private sector. He highlighted his strategic investments and the thousands of jobs created through his conglomerate, Dangote Group. He emphasized that Dangote’s appointment was well-deserved given the group’s rise to prominence, spanning industries like cement, fertilizer, salt, sugar, oil, and gas.
Tinubu also noted that Dangote’s $20 billion Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals project is the most ambitious and significant private investment in Africa. He encouraged Dangote to bring his innovative ideas to his new role at the World Bank. Also, he encouraged him to help shape impactful initiatives for emerging markets globally.
Dangote was announced as part of the World Bank’s expanded Private Sector Investment Lab on Wednesday. Joining other business leaders such as Bill Anderson (CEO of Bayer AG), Sunil Bharti Mittal (Chair of Bharti Enterprises). Lastly, Mark Hoplamazian (President and CEO of Hyatt Hotels). The expanded lab aims to attract private capital and create jobs in developing economies. In addition, to support the World Bank’s goal of global job creation as a key focus for development.
TV anchor Rufai Oseni makes headlines as he speaks on fuel subsidy in Nigeria. He shared that Nigeria can have fuel subsidy without the long queues at filling stations.
“When we were still paying subsidies, there were no long queues. We were subsidising. So you can still have a subsidy regime going on, and there will be no long queues because production was close by. Dangote had it. That’s just it. That argument also falls flat.
“The biggest beneficiaries of subsidy are not Nigerians. They are crony capitalists that have big infrastructure, and they do contracts. They have been the biggest beneficiaries of the subsidy,” he said.
Lagos State Governor, Sanwo-Olu, speaks to those in the electricity sector about the usual blackouts in the state.
He speaks on ways things can change in the state and how electricity can be provided.
“We need to drop corporate egos, abandon long-standing excuses, and confront the harsh realities obstructing progress in the power sector.”
“We, state governments, used to give excuses that everything is centralised, so the Federal Government has unbundled it now. What have we done in a year and a half?” Sanwo-Olu asked.
“We take two steps forward, we go five steps backward,” he said.
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared Thursday, August 20, a work-free day for public servants in the state to mark the Isese Festival.
Speaking on the celebration, he said “Ìṣẹ̀ṣe is not a relic. It is a living expression of our traditions and a celebration of Yoruba spirituality as an important part of Nigeria’s cultural and religious landscape,” he said.
He added “When the drums sound in Lagos on Thursday, they answer drums in Havana, in Salvador, in Port of Spain. Fifty-five million people and counting. Lagos is not observing a local holiday. Lagos is standing at the centre of a global heritage,” Aregbe said.
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