President Bola Tinubu has commended the signing of a strategic Memorandum of Understanding between Nigeria’s BUA Group and UAE-based AD Ports Group and MAIR Group in Abu Dhabi. In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the President described the MoU as a significant industrial and trade breakthrough arising […]
BY MOTOLANI OSENI BUA Cement Plc, one of Nigeria’s leading cement manufacturers and producers of Sokoto Cement and BUA Cement, celebrates its top distributors in appreciation of their loyalty, trust and partnerships with the company. The award night, themed “Pillars of Strength, Celebrating Partnerships”, was held at the prestigious Eko Hotels in Lagos, with distributors […]
BY MOTOLANI OSENI BUA Group has committed over $65 million in private funds to reconstruct Terminal B of the Rivers Port Complex, confirming that the project is entirely self-financed and expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2026. The company announced this in its recent statement in response to comments by former Nigerian […]
The founder and Chairman of BUA Group, Abdulsamad Rabiu, has defeated the Chairman Dangote Group of Companies, Aliko Dangote and South Africa’s Patrice Motsepe in an online voting to emerge the African Entrepreneur of the Decade, 2023. The award being spearheaded by Face of Democracy Nigeria (FDN) is organized to recognize entrepreneurs, business and political […]
By Joy Obakeye BUA Group has been announced as a main sponsor of the 2023 Lagos International Polo Tournament scheduled to hold from January 28 to February 19, 2023, in Lagos State. In addition, BUA will be sponsoring the most prestigious high-goal subsidiary cup – The Independence Cup reputed as the oldest polo prize in […]
By Temitope Adebayo Founder of BUA Group, Abdul Samad Rabiu, has been conferred with the prestigious Nigerian National Honour of Commander of the Federal Republic as well as the Nigeria Excellence Award in Public Service (NEAPS) by TBS. These awards were presented by President Muhammadu Buhari recently on two different occasions to Abdul Samad Rabiu […]
The establishment of a new sugar refining plant in the country, according to Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Chairman of Dangote Industries Limited, and Mr. John Coumantaros, Chairman of Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc, poses a challenge to the achievement of the National Sugar Master Plan (NSMP) as well as the sustainability of the country’s local sugar […]
BUA Cement has announced the establishment of a three million metric tonnes cement plant in Adamawa State. The company simultaneously announced a 50 megawatts power plant in Guyuk and Lamurde Local Government areas of the state This was disclosed by the Chairman of BUA Group, Abdul Samad Rabiu, when he led a management team on […]
The Chairman of BUA Group, Alhaji Abdussamad Rabiu, has donated a 3-storey building in Kano, to serve as isolation center for the COVID-19 disease. Mallam Garba Mohammed, Chairman Kano state fund raising commitee on COVID-19, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Kano.According to the statement the BUA CEO had already instructed his contractors […]
The equities market of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday recorded the first gain of the week as the All-Share Index (ASI) rose by 0.17 per cent due to buying interest in BUA Cement Plc and 18 other stocks. The All Share Index rose by 45.83 basis points or 0.17 per cent to 27,568.91 […]
The Publicity Secretary of Edo State Peoples Democratic Party ,Chris Osa Nehikhare has accused Governor Godwin Obaseki of showing open support to the Dangote Group at the expense of BUA in the ongoing face-off between the two groups. It will be recalled that in 2008,the BUA Group acquired majority shareholding of Edo Cement Company after […]
Management of Dangote Group over the weekend accused BUA of engaging in illegal mining of limestone deposits in its Mining Lease No. 2541, located in a boundary town of Oguda/Ubo in Okene Kogi State. Dangote’s Executive Director, Mr. Devakumar Edwin, frowned at the media war, instigated by BUA against the Dangote Group, over a matter […]
….Sokoto, Edo plants to be commissioned in 2018 The Chairman of BUA Group, Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu, has said that his firm will soon increase cement output in the country, as he plans to expand the company’s facilities in order to make more cement available for local consumption. He said, “We will be inaugurating our Sokoto […]