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Good morning from Billionaires.Africa.
Here is a brief on what we published yesterday.
The most consequential development was Aliko Dangote's confirmation that the Dangote Cement London listing is targeted for September 2026.
Friday's news that he was reviving the 2018 attempt has now been given a date, and the timing places the cement listing roughly two months after the refinery IPO subscription window we have been tracking through the week.
Dangote himself characterized 2026 as the busiest year of his business life — between the refinery IPO sequencing, the cement London debut, the 20,000MW power generation announcement at the IFC, the 1.4 million bpd refinery expansion plan, and the structural integration of the broader industrial group, the description is not unwarranted. For foreign investors and family offices, the cement London listing changes the access architecture meaningfully.
Dangote Cement has been one of the most consistently profitable African industrial equities of the past decade and has been substantially constrained for international institutional capital because of NGX-only access.
A London listing alongside the planned pan-African refinery offering would, by September, give institutional investors three distinct routes to allocate capital to the Dangote industrial complex — NGX, LSE, and the cross-listed pan-African exchanges. That is a structural change in how African industrial wealth is held.
In the broader Nigerian power sector, Olakunle Williams's Tetracore Energy Group secured the first preliminary electricity generation and distribution licenses ever issued in Nasarawa State, presented by Governor Abdullahi Sule at the Nasarawa Investment Summit on May 6-7.
The 60-megawatt gas-fired Independent Power Project at the heart of the Nasarawa expansion is structured to scale to 120-150MW across the Nasarawa-Toto, Awe-Obi and Akwanga-Karu-Keffi corridors, following the company's already-commissioned 100MW Atakobo IPP in Ogun State that started generating power on April 20.
The Tetracore expansion is the kind of corridor-based gas-to-power story that, in the cumulative, will determine whether Nigeria's installed grid capacity actually moves from the current 13,000MW figure toward the much larger numbers Dangote and others have been signaling.
The micro-detail matters: Nasarawa is a structurally underserved middle-belt market that has historically depended on diesel generation for industrial offtakers. A 60MW corridor grid backed by gas-to-power infrastructure is a meaningful displacement of that diesel demand and a credible test of whether the Independent Power Project model can scale beyond the more familiar Lagos and Ogun corridors.
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Aliko Dangote targets September London listing for Dangote Cement in busiest year of his business life Dangote has put a date on the London cement debut and framed 2026 as the busiest year of his business life — refinery IPO, cement London listing, 20,000MW power program, and the 1.4 million bpd refinery expansion all in motion at once.
Tetracore Energy secures Nasarawa's first power licenses as gas-to-power push expands Olakunle Williams has secured the first electricity generation and distribution licenses ever issued in Nasarawa State, anchoring a 60MW gas-fired IPP that scales to 150MW following the recent commissioning of the 100MW Atakobo project in Ogun.
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