Dangote Cement Plc accepted 81 trainees into its Graduate Trainee program this weekend to increase employment in the country. Since the program’s inception, the corporation has inducted hundreds of trainees across its African operations.
In addition, the company has recognized its excellent employees with the ‘Long Service Award’ and the ‘Hall of Wall of Fame Employee Award’ for embodying the Dangote Cement core principles of customer service, entrepreneurship, excellence, and leadership quality.
The employees who received big monetary awards had worked with Dangote Cement for a minimum of five years. Speaking at a three-park event hosted over the weekend in Lagos Dangote Cement chairman Aliko Dangote said the event aimed to recognize and appreciate “…our distinguished staff in the outgoing year of 2023.”
He stated that “we are honoring some of our employees for their years of service to the company. We are also congratulating our graduating trainees, who have completed their induction program.”
Dangote also stated “We have remained Africa’s leading cement producer, with a capacity of 52 million metric tonnes per year across the continent. We are also planning to commission our Cote d’Ivoire plants, and work has begun on another six million Tonnes in Itori, Ogun state. We have eliminated Nigerians’ reliance on imported cement by working together to make our country into a cement exporter to numerous bordering countries. This trend will be mirrored in the energy industry as our petrochemical refinery becomes operational in the next few months.”
Gloria Byamugisha, Group Chief Human Resources Officer at Dangote Cement, stated, “We are operationalizing our employee value proposition in Dangote Cement, where we reward, recognize progress effort, and values but most importantly, emulate humanity and an entrepreneurial spirit.”
She mentioned that Dangote Cement resumed its graduate trainee program two years ago, and that 81 people are now graduating to offer value to the firm. Byamugisha emphasized Dangote Cement’s diversity, stating that “in DCP, we have at least 20 nationalities, we speak over 40 languages, and we are the largest employer right after the federal government of Nigeria.”
Mr Haruna Adinoyi, Dangote Cement’s Programme Manager for Graduate Training said that “the Graduate Training Programme is an 18-month program.” The programme began in July 2022 with the intention of empowering adolescents in technological competence domains, particularly in Nigeria. As a result, the trainees experience the entire value chain of cement manufacturing.
