{"id":42892,"date":"2024-07-21T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/dangote-refinery-paid-100m-for-land-received-no-incentive-from-nigerian-govt-aliko\/"},"modified":"2024-07-21T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T05:00:16","slug":"dangote-refinery-paid-100m-for-land-received-no-incentive-from-nigerian-govt-aliko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/dangote-refinery-paid-100m-for-land-received-no-incentive-from-nigerian-govt-aliko\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangote refinery paid $100m for land, received no incentive from Nigerian govt \u2014 Aliko"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Aliko Dangote, Africa\u2019s richest man, on Saturday stated that he did not enjoy any incentive from the Nigerian government to build his $20bn refinery sited at the Lekki Free Trade Zone.<\/p>\n<p>Dangote made this known when he received the leadership of the House of Representatives led by the Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas and his deputy, Benjamin Kalu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the refinery, we did not, and I repeat, we did not collect one single incentive from the Federal Government of Nigeria or even Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, the Lagos State gave us a good deal but we paid $100m for the land. It wasn\u2019t free land; we paid for it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMajority of the population are with us. So, we are not discouraged, we will continue what we are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dangote further called on the House of Representatives to investigate the quality of diesel and petrol at filling stations, refuting the claims that petroleum products from his refinery are substandard.<\/p>\n<p>Dangote also urged the House to set up a committee to test products at various filling stations across the country, decrying the damage being done to vehicles and engines by substandard products.<\/p>\n<p>Dangote refinery paid $100m for land, received no incentive from Nigerian govt \u2014 Aliko<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliko Dangote, Africa\u2019s richest man, on Saturday stated that he did not enjoy any incentive from the Nigerian government to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4161,2559,15],"tags":[1300,8,11709,519,2561,190,255,512,21607,1738,180,766,2135,17663,6632],"class_list":["post-42892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-dangote","category-news","tag-100m","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-aliko","tag-business","tag-dangote","tag-for","tag-from","tag-govt","tag-incentive","tag-land","tag-news","tag-nigerian","tag-paid","tag-received","tag-refinery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}