Dangote Group Chairman, Aliko Dangote, has expressed his deep appreciation to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his visionary leadership and farsightedness on the Bar Beach Land Reclamation project in Victoria Island, Lagos State. Dangote, in a statement, said the project has transformed a coastline that was once prone to incessant floods to an emerging new district with a defining skyline and a receptacle for direct investment and socioeconomic growth.

Dangote Group Chairman Aliko Dangote commended the President for the project’s success, noting that it has given birth to a modern city spanning 1,000 hectares, protected by an 8.5-kilometre-long sea wall, protecting Victoria Island from coastal erosion. “This success story, which is now being used for residential, business, and recreational purposes, is exemplary intervention in ending the era of ocean surge and in continuous tackling the issue of perennial flooding,” Dangote said.

Dangote also praised the President for kick-starting the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway and the Sokoto-Badagry superhighway, significantly enriching the country’s stock of infrastructure while improving the national road network linking Nigeria’s six geo-political zones. “Indeed, Your Excellency, your inspired move recalls a similar methodology in a land reclamation process in Zeeland, Netherlands, where submerged land was transformed into usable, dry land, primarily for agriculture and settlement,” Dangote added.

Furthermore, Dangote commiserated with the families of those who died in the Texas flooding incident and expressed gratitude for the President’s compassionate and visionary leadership, which has provided huge and consistent support for businesses and enabled a more prosperous nation for the collective good.

In honor of the President’s vision, Dangote announced plans to contribute to a Climate Fund that will target vulnerable parts of the country susceptible to natural disasters. “For all of us at Dangote Industries Limited, as we commiserate with the families of those who died in the Texas flooding incident, we are also grateful for your compassionate and visionary leadership,” he said.

Dangote prayed that the Almighty Allah would continue to increase the President’s wisdom, burnish his vision, and inspire him to greater heights of success for the benefit of all Nigerians. “Thank you very much, Asiwaju!” he concluded.