Nigeria

Anambra attracts N60bn agric investments
- Vanguard
- 14 October 2017
Triton Group is partnering with China's Choice International Group on a 4,000 ha commercial agriculture project in Anambra State, Nigeria
SOCFIN’s plantations in Africa: Many places of violence and destruction
- WRM
- 24 September 2017
There is a large gap between SOCFIN's “responsible management” policy and the reality of violence and destruction around its plantations, where, with the complicity of national governments, the company attempts to suppress people’s resistance.
Du ciment à l'agriculture: le nigérian Aliko Dangote et le marocain Anas Sefrioui auraient-ils fait le même rêve ?
- Agence Ecofin
- 20 September 2017
Dangote et Sefrioui veulent désormais contribuer à réduire le gap de l’offre dans des produits alimentaires essentiels en Afrique.
The palm oil crisis in Nigeria - and beyond
- Ecologist
- 08 September 2017
In June, Environmental Rights Action/FOE Nigeria and representatives of the Owan and Okomu communities delivered a letter to the Governor of Edo State urging him to uphold a revocation Order on 13,750 ha of land expropriated by Okomu Plc.
Nigeria: Red card for land grabbers
- This Day
- 22 August 2017
Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has issued an edict warning all local chiefs and traditional rulers to desist from land grabbing or face dethronement.
Nigéria: le groupe Dangote indemnise les propriétaires affectés par son projet de raffinerie de sucre à Nasarawa
- Agence Ecofin
- 21 August 2017
Dangote a débuté le paiement d’une indemnisation à plusieurs propriétaires terriens dans l’Etat de Nasarawa qui ont perdu leurs terres dans le cadre d’un projet de raffinerie de sucre de 60 0000 ha
Dangote turns to Nigerian agriculture
- African Business Magazine
- 18 August 2017
Nigeria’s biggest private sector company, the Dangote Group, has decided to turn its attention to agribusiness. Dangote will pay the state government N1.2bn ($3.7m) for 16,000 hectares of land and give it an equity stake in the company.
The march against land grabs
- This Day Live
- 09 August 2017
Civil Society Organisations in Edo State, Nigeria under the umbrella of Coalition for Protection of the Environment, recently staged a protest against land grabbing and deforestation.
“Massive investments into agriculture and oil processing on the way”, says Dangote’s Devakumar Edwin
- African Business Magazine
- 04 August 2017
The Dangote Group, Nigerian giant conglomerate’s has plans to invest $3.8bn in sugar, rice and milk over the next three years. What is the rationale for the investment?
Uphold Edo State government revocation order on Okomu oil palm company Plc
- ERA
- 28 July 2017
Environmental Rights Action (ERA) Nigeria calling to support e-action to Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State to enforce the revocation order of 13,750 hectares of illegally acquired land in Owan and Okomu Forest Reserves by Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc.
Huge ag investments by Africa’s richest man threaten expansion of illegal deforestation in Nigeria
- IDM
- 17 July 2017
A corporation led by Africa’s richest man, has announced plans for a huge expansion of agricultural plantations.Secretive billionaire Aliko Dangote intends to invest nearly $5 billion in expanding oil palm, soy and sugarcane production in Nigeria.
Africa's richest man invests $4.6 billion in Nigeria farming
- Bloomberg
- 14 July 2017
Dangote Group says it is also “at the planning stage’’ to invest in other agricultural projects including production of soybean, oil palm, palm kernel and corn.