Nigeria Law
Companies of Record

Industrial conglomerate · democracy · Founded 1981 (group)

Dangote Group / Dangote Cement / Dangote Refinery

Status: Operating.

Why it is on record

Dangote Cement is Africa's largest cement producer; the Dangote Refinery (commissioned 2023–24, Lekki) is the world's largest single-train refinery (650,000 bpd) — a global engineering record held by a Nigerian company.

Record held

World's largest single-train refinery; Africa's largest cement producer; Aliko Dangote: Africa's richest person for over a decade running (documented annually).

Accountability

The refinery's pricing standoffs with NNPC and import-licence disputes (2024–25) are documented public-policy events; recorded factually.
Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Redline

Wikipedia is never a source.