Founder and CEO of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, honoured President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu by naming the road that leads to the Dangote Refinery as Bola Ahmed Tinubu Road on Thursday 5 June, 2025.
The Businesman and Philanthropist made the announcement of the honour while speaking about the various road projects his Group was constructing across the country with tax credit.
Kano State-born, Dangote, affirmed the Group’s commitment to spending ₦900 billion on roads, despite paying ₦450 billion in taxes last year.
For the first time, President Tinubu visited the Refinery on Thursday before he commissioned the Lekki Deep Sea Port concrete road and flagging off Section 2 of the Lagos-Calabar superhighway and the 25 km 7th axial road.
The road connects the port, the Free Trade Zone and Dangote Refinery to Sagamu-Benin expressway, via Ijebu Ode.
Dangote Refinery is an oil refinery owned by Dangote Group that was inaugurated on 22 May 2023 in the Lekki area of Lagos State, Nigeria.
At full capacity, the Dangote Refinery is expected to have the capacity to process about 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day, this makes it the largest single-train refinery in the world.
This investment costs more than $19 million.
The refinery is planted on a 6,180 acres (2,500 hectares) site at the Lekki Free Trade Zone, Lekki, Lagos State, Nigeria.
President Tinubu commissioned the completed section of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Superhighway after attending the Golden Jubilee of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) which was hosted in Lagos.
At the 50th anniversary of the Bloc, President Tinubu made known the economic milestones of ECOWAS to fellow West African Leaders who attended the event.
Only surviving founding father of ECOWAS, former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, expressed his disappointment following the announcement of the pulling out of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger from the Bloc.
