Devakumar: Dangote refinery ready to start by end of 2020
By CNBC
17 August 2019 |
3:26 pm
Edwin Devakumar, Group Executive Director at the Dangote Group says they are confident that the refinery will be completely built and ready to start by the end of 2020. For an update on the Dangote refinery, he joined CNBC Africa’s Esther Awoniyi for more.
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