The
Dansa Group, a subsidiary of Dangote Group of the Companies, on Monday
said it had concluded plans to invest £36m in the establishment of
Africa’s largest energy food plant in Nigeria. The Minister of
Agriculture, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, reportedly stated this in New York
during an interview with journalists.
Adesina said the President, Dansa Group,
Mr. 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, Mr. Bill Gates; a
former United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan; President,
International Fund for Agriculture Development, Dr. Kanayo Nwanze; and
President, African Development Bank, Dr. 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 recognised 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. “So, this is about monitoring in Nigeria, giving it a push.
Bill Gates said today that what Nigeria is doing in agriculture is
extraordinary. And Kofi Annan said that what Nigeria is doing here makes it a
leader in agriculture already in Africa; so, this is a further validation that
Nigeria is on the right track.”
Source: The Punch
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