{"id":6034,"date":"2018-01-09T23:34:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T06:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=6034"},"modified":"2018-01-09T23:34:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T06:34:56","slug":"liberia-house-reviews-u-s-41-million-dangote-cement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/liberia-house-reviews-u-s-41-million-dangote-cement\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: House Reviews U.S.$41 Million Dangote Cement Investment Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jan 10, 2018: Members of the House of Representatives in Liberia are reviewing an Investment Incentive Agreement between the Government of Liberia and Dangote Cement Liberia Limited worth over US$41 million from the DANGOTE GROUP – one of the most diversified business conglomerates in Africa.<\/p>\n

The group’s activities encompass cement manufacturing, packing, and distribution.<\/p>\n

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, founded and chairs Dangote Cement, the continent’s largest cement producer.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday the House’s Plenary mandated its Joint Committee on Ways, Means, Finance & Development Planning, the Judiciary and Investment, Contracts and Monopolies to probe the agreement and report to Plenary in two weeks.<\/p>\n

The House’s decision was prompted by a letter from President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, urging the Legislature to ratify the agreement.<\/p>\n

According to the letter from the President, the duration of the agreement is 15 years, and it will include financing, construction, development, and operation of a clinker grinding unit with cement packing and dispatch plant of 1,000 tons per day, expendable to 2,000 tons per day capacity, within the Freeport of Monrovia.<\/p>\n