The Chairman of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has introduced that the highway resulting in the state-of-the-art Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals can be named after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in honour of his contribution to the mission.
Dangote hailed Tinubu for his unwavering assist of the personal sector and credited him because the visionary behind the Free Commerce Zone throughout his tenure as Governor of Lagos State.
Dangote made the announcement throughout President Tinubu’s tour of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals, which coincided with the official commissioning of the Deep Sea Port Entry Highway on Thursday, June 5, 2025.
This strategic highway hyperlinks the Lekki Deep Sea Port, the Free Commerce Zone, and the Dangote Refinery to the Sagamu–Benin Expressway by way of Ijebu Ode.
Dangote advised the President, “The Dangote refinery advanced is, in some ways, your brainchild. Mr President, let me simply say one factor — the principle highway main into our refinery is now to be referred to as Bola Ahmed Tinubu Highway.”
Following the announcement, President Tinubu rose to shake fingers with Dangote in a second that drew applause from the dignitaries in attendance.
Dangote spending N900 billion on highway initiatives
Dangote additionally revealed that, regardless of paying N450 billion in taxes final 12 months, the Group is dedicated to spending N900 billion on highway infrastructure throughout Nigeria. He stated the Deep Sea Port Entry Highway is one among a number of roads constructed and being developed by the Dangote Group below the Federal Authorities’s tax credit score scheme.
- The Dangote Group is at the moment the very best tax-paying firm in Nigeria, contributing extra in taxes than all of the nation’s banks mixed.
- In line with Dangote, the Deep Sea Port Entry Highway is one among eight main highway initiatives totalling 500 kilometres, together with two in Borno State that may finally hyperlink Nigeria to each Chad and Cameroon.
- He praised President Tinubu’s management, describing him as a brave chief whose administration has revived investor confidence within the personal sector.
Dangote thanked the President for envisioning and implementing the Lekki Deep Sea Port mission and guaranteed him of the personal sector’s assist for increasing infrastructure nationwide.
Tinubu hails Dangote Refinery
Commissioning the concrete highway to the Lekki Deep Sea Port, President Tinubu hailed the Dangote Petroleum Refinery as a “outstanding achievement,” calling it “an important level of reference, an outstanding mission of our time, and an enormous funding” that exemplifies Nigeria’s potential for industrial and {economic} transformation.
President Tinubu stated, “Having inspected the Dangote refinery, which is a superb level of reference, an important phenomenon of our time and an enormous funding, I need to thank Aliko Dangote. I’m blissful that the Deep Sea Port I initiated as Governor of Lagos State is a large success immediately. Customers save huge quantities of cash utilizing this port as a result of they not have to trans-ship their items. I commend the standard of the entry highway performed by Messrs Dangote Industries Restricted on our Tax Credit score Highway programme and the subcontractor, Messrs Hitech Development Firm Restricted.”
