Lagos, May 27, 2025 – The Dangote Industries Limited is to start exporting 16,000 tonnes of fertilizer daily in the next two years.
The company announced this in a statement on Monday.
The statement said Aliko Dangote, its Chief Executive, announced this during courtesy visit to the headquarters of the Nigerian Ports Authority in Lagos.
He said the fertilizer export would bring about $7 million daily revenue to the federal government and position the company as a major supplier of foreign exchange to the country.
“In the next two years, we will be exporting about 16,000 tonnes of fertiliser. When you talk about 16,000 tonnes of fertiliser, it’s about $6.5m to $7m revenue that will be coming into the country daily.
“With our export programme, our company will be the major supplier of foreign exchange earnings in Nigeria,” he said.
Dangote also announced that the company would start exporting coal and other products in few weeks.
“In the next couple of weeks, we will start exporting coal out of Nigeria.
“The refinery operations will not export less than 25 million tonnes of various products. We will also be exporting about 600,000 to 700,000 metric tonnes of polypropylene.
“So, when you are talking about export, we are going to be very big,” he said.
Dangote commended the NPA on the expansion of its operations, stressing that it was important for the company to dialogue with the NPA as one of its biggest customers.
“I think this kind of interaction is very important for the growth of the industry. We discussed quite a lot of issues.
“We also discussed issues of how to deepen the Marine and Blue Economy sector. And we have agreed to work together for the benefit of Nigeria.
“We will soon be massively expanding our export operations. We are already exporting cement out of Nigeria. We have a whole factory of six million tons for cement export.
“So. the operations of Nigerian ports will double in the next one or two years,” he said.
