Dangote Cement Celebrates Host Community Day with Four multi-million-naira Empowerment Programmes

Dangote Cement PLC Ibese Plant has marked its 2023 host community day with the unveiling of four multi-million-naira empowerment schemes for youths, women, farmers and students in the host communities.

At the well-attended event witnessed by traditional rulers, women and youth leaders from the host communities, 103 indigent and brilliant secondary and tertiary institution students across the 17 host communities were given scholarship awards.

Another set of 30 youths trained on shoe and bag-making were presented to the delight of the royal fathers.

Also, 60 weeding machines were presented to farmers to help them clear their farms with ease, while 50 women were empowered with deep freezers and the same number of were also gifted with ultra-modern grinding machines.

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Recall that the cement company had earlier intervened in a prolonged outage in some of the communities by procuring cables and other materials needed for the restoration of electricity to the affected communities.

Speaking on the occasion held inside the cement plant’s staff estate in Ibese, the plant director Mr. Azad Nawabuddin noted that the company had stepped up its social interventions, given the prevailing challenging situation across the world.

The Aboro of Ibeseland, Oba Rotimi Oluwaseyi Mulero thanked the management of Dangote Cement plant in Ibese for impacting their host communities positively and urged it not to relent in its social interventions.

Also, Ogun state commissioner for trade and investments, Adebola Sofela, who was represented by permanent secretary of the ministry, Dr. Olu Aikulola, commended Dangote cement for the various interventions in form of empowerment of the people, describing the gesture as a relief to the state government.

Oba Kayode Kusoro, the Olu of Aga Olowo in an interview said the presence of Dangote cement in the Yewa North Local Government Area has marked out the area as an industrial hub.