{"id":26078,"date":"2020-11-04T13:34:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T12:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/?p=26078"},"modified":"2020-11-04T13:34:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T12:34:16","slug":"2bn-fertiliser-plant-begins-operation-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/2bn-fertiliser-plant-begins-operation-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"$2bn fertiliser plant begins operation in December"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Tanko Mohammed&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The $2 billion granulated urea fertiliser plant located at Ibeju Lekki, Lagos which belongs to Dangote Group would begin operation before the end of December.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Mr Anthony Chiejina, the Group Head of Corporate Communications of Dangote Group, confirmed on Wednesday in Lagos that&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cthe project will be ready for take-off before the end of December\u2019\u2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201d The pre-testing has already been done and the delay in starting operations was due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Billionaire Aliko Dangote who is&nbsp;&nbsp;Chief Executive Officer, Dangote Group, had in February projected that the plant would begin operations in July.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Dangote had said that the project would be the largest fertiliser plant in the world with its three million tonnes per annum capacity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>He said it would make Nigeria the only urea exporting country in Sub-Saharan Africa, adding that the fertiliser and petrochemicals plants were capable of generating $2.5 billion annually.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>According to him, the amount is almost 10 per cent of what Nigeria is getting from home remittances, which is one of the highest in the world. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanko Mohammed&nbsp; The $2 billion granulated urea fertiliser plant located at Ibeju Lekki, Lagos which belongs to Dangote Group would begin operation before the end of December.&nbsp; Mr Anthony Chiejina, the Group Head of Corporate Communications of Dangote Group, confirmed on Wednesday in Lagos that&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cthe project will be ready for take-off before the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,235,126],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-26078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-money","category-resources","category-trade-and-industry","tag-industry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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