Youth employment our priority — Dangote

Dangote Group has reiterated its determination to eradicate the high youth unemployment in the country.

Dangote Group’s Executive Director, Commercial Operations, Hajia Fatima Aliko-Dangote, who made this disclosure at the just concluded Lagos International Trade Fair during the “Dangote Day”, said since inception, the desire of the President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, was to assist the three tiers of government in the country, in eradicating poverty, and the best way for Dangote Group to do this, will be to contribute to eradicating youth unemployment in the country.

She said: “The desire of our President, Aliko Dangote, is to ensure that Nigerian youths are ably employed, because it is only when this happens, that they can also contribute their quota to the growth and development of the county. And once the youths are also positively engaged, the security challenges of the country will abate.”

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President of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Dr Micheal Olawale-Cole, said Dangote Group has created jobs more than any known private sector operators in the Country.