Kano State Chamber of Commerce Industry, Mines and Agriculture (KACCIMA) ,awarded Dangote Industries Limited as the most supportive company during the recent 42nd Kano International Trade Fair.
Alhaji Uba Tanko Mijinyawa, Chairman, Committee on Trade Fair, Kano State Chamber of Commerce Industry Mines and Agriculture (KACCIMA) who presented the award explained that Dangote Industries Limited won the award because it has been consistent and supportive in its philanthropic activities.
Dangote Group was the major sponsor of the just concluded 42nd Kano International Trade Fair that attracted local, national firms and multinational.
In a speech at the ceremony, Representative of Dangote company at the Trade Fair, Alhaji Abdulsalam Waya said the company has recorded giant strides in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility.
Mr. Waya explained that some of the philanthropic works it has carried out in Kano State include state-of-the-art Surgical and Diagnostic Centre within the premises of Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital, Kano.
Others, are construction of a Business School complex within the premises of Bayero University, Kano comprising of auditoriums, lecture theatres, offices, classes and library; as well as the construction of hostels and provision of other facilities at the Kano State University of Science & Technology, Wudil.
He revealed that Dangote Industries Limited is also the largest employer of labour in Nigeria outside the government.
