The Pan-African Conglomerate, Dangote Industries Limited has inducted a new batch of Graduate Trainees in its Graduate Trainee programme, with the management declaring that continuous investments in critical sectors of the economy to create employment and promote decent jobs is irrevocable.
Addressing the trainees, Aliko Dangote, President of Dangote Group, gave the trajectory of the Dangote businesses, explaining it transited from being a commodity trading company to manufacturing in the quest to contribute to the industrial development of the country, thereby repositioning Nigeria in the African industrial landscape.
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He explained that the mission of the Group was to touch the peoples’ lives by providing their basic needs and that this could only be fulfilled through manufacturing of the goods that could meet the people’s needs hence the massive investments in various sectors of the economy.
According to him, manufacturing to meet the people’s needs came with employment creation, saying that manufacturing was one of the potent ways of lifting the people from poverty through creation of gainful employment, which has led the institution of the graduate trainee programme of which they are beneficiaries.