President Buhari commissions Dangote’s $2.5bn Fertilizer plant

L-R: Deputy Secretary-General, The United Nations, Amina Mohammed; President/CE, Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote; President Muhammadu Buhari, and Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, during the commissioning of Dangote Fertilizer 3.0 Metric Tones Urea Plant, Dangote Industries Free Zone, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos on Tuesday, March 22, 2022

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday commissioned the new 3 million Metric Tones capacity per annum state-of-the-art Dangote Fertilizer Urea Plant, with an emphatic assurance that the project would give a huge fillip to Nigeria’s agricultural sector, which revitalization has been a focal point of his administration’s economic policy.

The new plant, which he commissioned in the presence of some 18 governors, ministers, captains of industries as well as prominent traditional rulers, is located at Ibeju Lekki, Lagos Free Trade Zone within the periphery of the Dangote refinery.