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Aliko Dangote

CEO, Dangote Group

Search every verified Aliko Dangote interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Aliko Dangote, president and CEO of the Dangote Group, has recently hosted Nigerian creative industry figures, including content creators and Nollywood actors, at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals Complex in Lagos. During the visit, organized under the group's Vision 2030 initiative, Dangote led a tour of the facility and participated in an interactive session moderated by actor Richard Mofe-Damijo, encouraging attendees to pursue ambitious goals and build globally competitive brands. He also accepted an invitation from Nigerian content creator Bae U to appear on the YouTube show "Curiosity Made Me Ask," after Bae U suggested during the visit that Dangote's media appearances were not reaching younger audiences. Dangote responded that the youth are the future and that his generation had not served Nigeria and Africa well, adding that he would "blame" his media team for not advising him to engage such platforms. Dangote has also been promoting the planned $16 billion Lamu refinery in Kenya, which he said is expected to be operational by 2030 and have a capacity of 700,000 barrels per day. In media appearances, he stated that the project would support regional markets and create jobs, and he dismissed protests and legal challenges around the site as games played by local marketers and international traders. He emphasized that Africa must industrialize and add value to its natural resources locally, and he spoke about broader Dangote Group plans, including a $50 billion investment program through 2030 spanning refining, petrochemicals, and other sectors. He also discussed the group's upcoming IPO for Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals, describing the share price as very good and noting plans to expand refining capacity to 1.4 million barrels per day by early 2029.

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“A company like ours now out of Africa, out of Nigeria the most difficult place to do business, we have launched a project of $50 billion to spend between now and that time. I must say that this is the first time what we have is not official but today we have more cash than what you are owing, is not possible in Africa.”

“You can roll out any policies that you like as a president of any nation. If you don't partner with your own private sector, it will never happen. Government is not known to create jobs but they facilitate job creation through good policies and consistencies of policies. Money follows what you call trust. If there's no trust, it's not about profit. People will not allow their money to go into place where there's no t”

“So we now pump the sand 65 million metric tons was pumped. So now after pumping the sand now, you have to allow it to compact naturally which will take about 5 years basing. So no time to waste, right? You have to let it compact naturally. So no time to waste. So a lot of engineering also conducted say okay now we have three options. It's either to do dynamic compaction storm columns or pilings. These are the three o”

“We started this refinery, we did not all of us here know that this is how big this place was going to turn around, and we were so aggressive. We had 31 projects and out of the 31 there's one new head office 18th story building we are building on Alfred Rani just before you know we our office is marble house where we are next to the church of assumption you know so but just before we get there is that new building you”

“We realize that we've been taking for a ride, even though I mean that's our fault. We've been waiting for foreigners to come and make our continent prosperous, and that will never happen. So the issue is that when you go to places like Singapore, you won't believe that Malaysia forced them out of their side. You know they thought they are just parasites and Singapore they had to work hard and now Singapore is even bi”

“We must stop exporting our raw materials and only export finished goods. That's the only way we can create jobs prosperity in our continent. Perhaps the most important element of new compact is the relationship between government and private enterprise. The debate is sometimes presented as though we must choose between the state and the market. Africa needs both. The private sector cannot build efficient economies wh”

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