Dangote Cement Plc has inducted 81 trainees into its graduate trainee programme to boost employment in the country.
Since the beginning of the programme, the company has inducted hundreds of trainees into its service across its African operations.
The company has also rewarded its outstanding workers with “Long Service Award” and “Hall of Wall of Fame Employee Award” for embracing the Dangote Cement core values of customer care, entrepreneurship, excellence, and leadership quality.
The workers who were rewarded got significant monetary value, having spent a minimum of five years in the employment of Dangote Cement.
Speaking at the three-park event held at the weekend in Lagos to celebrate the long service winners, Hall of Fame awardees and graduate trainees, the Chairman of Dangote Cement, Aliko Dangote said the event was meant to honour and show appreciation to “…our distinguished workers in the outgoing year of 2023”.
He added: “We are honouring some of our workers for their long service to the company. We are also celebrating our graduate trainees who are officially rounding off their induction programme.
“…We are celebrating them for the tremendous progress the company recorded in 2023, despite the harsh operating environment and economic turbulence. Your resilience and tenacity ensured that we surmounted many obstacles to achieve goals.
“More importantly, I would like to thank all of you for your commitment and high performance. It is your commitment that has helped us to retain our position as the dominant player in the cement sector in Nigeria, not only in Nigeria but in Africa”.
Dangote also said the company had remained Africa’s leading cement producer with 52 million metric tonnes capacity per annum across the continent.
“We also have plans underway to commission our Cote d’Ivoire plants. Work has started for another six million tonnes at Itori in Ogun State.
“Through shared persistence, we have eliminated Nigerians’ independence on imported cement and transformed our nation into an exporter of cement to several neighbouring countries. This same development will be repeated in the energy sector as our petrochemical refinery becomes fully operational in the next few months”.
