Tag: cement
Inside Nigeria’s Cement Industry: How market power keeps prices high
long-term solution, Agora Policy recommended strengthening domestic competition through stricter antitrust enforcement, removal of exclusive mining rights, separation of production…
BUA slashes cement price to N3,500 per bag
According to the statement, the gesture is to allow Nigerians to enjoy the benefits of the price reduction before the…
Kano, Katsina residents lament high cost of cement
Some residents of Kano and Katsina States have blamed cement manufacturers over the prevailing scarcity and high cost of cement…
Institute decries cement price hike
The Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB) raised the alarm on Sunday that the hike in cement prices from N2,600 for…
No dollars to import rice, cement, chicken, others, CBN insists
The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, on Tuesday said the bank’s policy to restrict importers of…
Sokoto communities receive N7m worth of cement
The Cement Company of Northern Nigeria (CCNN) on Wednesday donated 2, 040 bags of cement worth N7 million to 68…
Nigeria now net exporter of cement in Africa – Dangote Group
The President of Dangote Group, Dr Aliko Dangote, says his company has made Nigeria a net exporter of cement in…
Man Jailed 8 Months For Cement Theft
An Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun on Tuesday sentenced a 45-year-old man, Anthony Ukpe, to eight months imprisonment for stealing…
Cement price hits roof top
The prices of different brands of cement have increased astronomically leaving builders and home owners complaining seriously about the high…
Dangote inaugurates $250 m plant in Douala, Cameroon
Dangote Cement Plc, on Thursday, achieved another feat with the inauguration of 250 million-dollar (N48.75 billion) cement grinding plant in…
Dangote triggers panic in Germany
HeidelbergCement rushed to buy control of Italcementi after fears that Nigeria’s cement mogul, Aliko Dangote also showed interest in the…
Dangote Cement to begin production in Tanzania
The sub-Saharan Africa’s leading cement producer, Dangote Cement, says it will begin production of cement in Tanzania’s Mtwara region in…
FG attracted $7bn investment in cement sector – Aganga
Olusegun Aganga, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, on Friday said the Federal Government has attracted new private sector investment…
Mixed reactions trail Dangote cement price cut in Ilorin
Distributors of Cement and block makers in Ilorin on Thursday expressed mixed feelings about the new prices of Dangote cement…
4 Escape Death As Truck Crashes
Yusuf Muhammed Four people narrowly escaped death on Thursday at Abule-Egba, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, when a truck conveying cement…
Cement Palaver: Dangote, Ibeto At War
A silent war is currently brewing between cement manufacturing giant, Dangote Group and Ibeto Cement Company, the sole importer of…
Price Of Cement Rises Again
The price of cement has recorded about 12.8 percent increase in major towns in Delta since the beginning of the…
NRC Begins Haulage Of Petroleum Products
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) is to begin haulage of petroleum products and agricultural produce across the country, the Minister…
2 Shiploads Of Kerosene Arrive
Two shiploads of kerosene have arrived Lagos ports P.M.NEWS has learnt. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, the…
Reduce Duty On Cement To Bring Down Price
Cement New Entrants Forum, a new group of cement importers, has urged the Federal Government to reduce import duty on…
Price Of Cement Still High
The price of cement which rose in Calabar, Cross River, in February has remained high, the News Agency of Nigeria…
Dangote Invests $1bn In Senegal
Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Chairman of the Dangote Group has further expanded his investment profile in Africa with two projects worth…