Dangote donates over N100 million to restore electricity in community

• Dangote Cement’s Ibese works donated implicit N100 cardinal worthy of electrical supplies to reconnect 21 communities successful Yewa North, Ogun State, ending a blackout that lasted much than 3 years
• The Ibese Plant absorption took this measurement retired of interest for the affected communities and handed the materials implicit to IBEDC, which pledged to implicit reconnections wrong six weeks
• Traditional leaders praised Dangote Cement for its generosity and committedness to improving the section communities contempt delays from the energy organisation company

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Dangote Cement’s Ibese works precocious donated a multi-million naira energy installation to Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State to extremity implicit 3 years of full blackout and reconnect 21 communities affected by a prolonged powerfulness outage.

The assemblage leaders praised the enactment of Dangote Cement Ibese Plant, which provided the electrical items. Photo credit: Dangote Group, Contributor
Source: UGC

Out of compassion for the impacted villages, the absorption of the Ibese Cement installation made the historical determination to supply the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) with each the indispensable supplies to reconnect the communities to the nationalist grid.

After receiving the delivery, accepted leaders from the affected communities expressed their gratitude to Aliko Dangote, Chairman of Dangote Cement Plc, for authorising much than N100 cardinal to acquisition the electrical supplies, which were past handed implicit to IBEDC representatives.

The assemblage leaders praised the uncommon enactment of Dangote Cement Ibese Plant, which provided the electrical items for the 2nd time. They besides urged IBEDC to expedite the reconnection process successful airy of the plant's generosity.

In effect to unit from the colony leaders, IBEDC promised to implicit the reconnection of each affected communities wrong 4 to six weeks from the day of handover.

Roy Uttam, the Ibese Plant Director, spoke during the handover of the electrical materials astatine the Ibese Police Station.

He said the donation was portion of the cement works management's efforts to extremity the extended blackout successful the affected towns and villages and advised the nationalist to guarantee the electrical installations are protected.

The works absorption had spent millions of naira to acquisition the electrical materials retired of a consciousness of bully neighbourliness.

He said,

“Otherwise, it should beryllium the occupation of IBEDC to supply the materials arsenic a concern task that would cod wealth from customers aft reconnecting them.”“The absorption of Dangote Cement Plc is donating the electrical materials to resoluteness the lingering powerfulness outage successful the affected communities, which person been successful acheronian for years owed to vandalism of cables and different installations by unscrupulous elements,” helium added.

The manager of the Ibese Plant added that the determination to measurement successful was motivated by genuine interest for the populace and a tendency to lessen the detrimental effects of the outage connected their socioeconomic activities.

He reaffirmed the cement company's dedication to the semipermanent maturation of the communities it serves and to ongoing practice connected projects that amended the wide well-being of the populace.

“We cherish surviving happily with our communities,” helium said.

Traditional leaders from the affected areas praised the Dangote Cement Ibese works absorption 1 aft different for their efforts successful ensuring that each the electrical supplies were yet acquired and delivered to the people arsenic promised.

The manager of the Ibese Plant said that the determination to assistance with energy was motivated by genuine concern. Photo Credit: Dangote Cement
Source: UGC

Oba Lukman Kuoye, the Olu of Imasayi, explained that the worldly publication was the result of respective fruitful interactions the Ibese Plant absorption had with a fig of involvement groups, including the communities and IBEDC, arsenic they worked to extremity the lengthy blackout.

“We convey God it is simply a world contiguous that we are connected the mode to being reconnected to the nationalist grid aft implicit 3 years successful darkness. We privation to convey Dangote Cement Ibese Plant for this development. We bash not instrumentality this for granted.“Dangote Cement is the lone transformer illuminating the Yewa communities and Ogun State successful wide done its CSR projects. The absorption did not adjacent see IBEDC’s inertia but inactive went up to donate materials that are expected to beryllium provided by the organisation company,” helium enthused.

Minister tells Nigerians to hole to wage higher energy tariff

Legit.ng reported that the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, says Nigeria’s system can nary longer prolong energy subsidies and has asked Nigerians to brace for new, cost-reflective tariffs.

Speaking during a gathering with the Chairmen of Electricity Generating Companies (GenCos) successful Abuja implicit the weekend, Adelabu said the government’s subsidy has accrued to implicit N4 trillion successful unpaid debts, and it is threatening the powerfulness sector's survival.

He, however, added that the Federal Government would proceed to supply targeted subsidies for economically disadvantaged Nigerians, but did not clarify the class of radical who would benefit.

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