Dangote Cement inducts 81 graduate trainees to boost employment
Dangote Cement Plc, has inducted 81 trainees in its Graduate Trainee programme to boost employment in the country. The company has so far inducted hundreds of such trainees into its service, across its African operations.
The Company also has rewarded its outstanding staff with ‘long Service Award’ and ‘Hall of Wall of Fame Employee Award’ for embracing the Dangote Cement core values of customer care, entrepreneurship, excellence and leadership quality.
The staff that were awarded with significant monetary value, have spent a minimum of five years in the employment of the company.
Speaking at the three-park event held in Lagos to celebrate the long service winners, Hall of Fame awardees and graduate trainees, the chairman of Dangote Cement, Aliko Dangote said the event was to honour and appreciate “our distinguished staff in the outgoing year of 2023.”
He said “We are honouring some of our staff for their long service to the company. We are also celebrating our graduate trainees who are officially rounding up their induction programme.”
According to Dangote, “we are celebrating them for the tremendous progress the company recorded in 2023 despite the harsh operating environment and economic turbulence, your resilience and tenacity ensured that we surmounted many obstacles to achieve goals.”
He also said the Group is focused on breaking new ground with innovations and strategies that will drive businesses while at the same time creating value for its stakeholders, saying that “we want to transform and develop Nigeria and African economies to be self-reliant and net exporter of manufactured goods.”
Group managing director of Dangote Cement, Mr Arvind Pathak said that “the dedication and loyalty of our long-serving employees, the achievements of our talented graduate trainees and our Hall of Fame awardees, have displayed passion, innovation and excellence in service delivery.”
He stated that the event is to recognise and honour the unwavering commitment the staff have demonstrated over the years, saying “Your dedication has been the cornerstone of our success, and is the testimony of your hard work, resilience, and loyalty. Your journey with us is a testament to the values that bind us, and we look forward to many more shared successes.”
The Group chief HR officer, Dangote Cement, Gloria Byamugisha said “We are operationalizing our employee value proposition in Dangote Cement, where we reward, recognise progress, effort, values but most importantly, emulating humanity and an entrepreneurial spirit.”
She noted that two years ago, Dangote Cement restarted its graduate trainee programme and today 81 are graduating to add value to the organization.
Also, the Programme manager for the graduate training of Dangote Cement, Mr. Haruna Adinoyi highlighted that “the Graduate Training Programme is for 18 months. We started in July 2022, intending to empower youth in the technical competencies fields in Nigeria especially. So, the trainees go through all the value chain in cement manufacturing.”
Responding on behalf of the Trainees, one of the trainees, Felix Ithootumhe thanked the management of the Group for the opportunity offered them by being selected to chart a good career path because Dangote Group is a leading conglomerate in Africa.
He said “The training has exposed us to different knowledge of the cement industry. Also, the training makes us align ourselves with the Company’s operations and business.”
Another trainee, Abduljabbar Mohammedusani added that “it is a wonderful 18 months journey, which was very challenging and rewarding at the same time. We have learnt a lot about how we can progress here at Dangote Cement plant.”
