Dangote Cement commits N4bn on 14 Yewa land community projects
Dangote Cement Plc has announced that it has committed about N4.38bn into various infrastructural projects as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for its 14 host communities in Yewa land in Ogun state.
A statement emailed by Francis Arowole-Browne, a media relations official of Dangote Industries Limited, stated that this was disclosed by the company’s Head, External Relations, Joseph Alabi.
Alabi said since the inauguration of Dangote Cement in Ibese eight years ago, the company had executed capital projects to the tune of N4.38bn.
He listed the projects to include 40 classrooms, three health centres, 22 boreholes and three transformers totalling N4.1bn.
Alabi disclosed that various on-going projects including 18 classrooms, four roads, one borehole, one health centre, and five transformers were estimated at N278m.
According to him, 635 youths from the communities had benefited from the company’s annual scholarship award while 20 youths had been sent to Dangote Academy in Obajana for training in various endeavours.
He assured that the company would continue to provide the necessary corporate social projects to make life easier for the host communities and urged the people to continue to provide the enabling peaceful atmosphere.
