Dangote supports Bayero University with N1.2bn structure

In his avowed commitment to encouraging entrepreneurship in the country as a way out of the economic doldrums and unemployment, Nigerian business magnate, Aliko Dangote, is donating another N1.2 billion structure to aid the running of a business school in Bayero University, Kano (BUK).
According to the Dangote Group, the building, which would be handed over to the university management formally next month, is a state-of-the-art edifice and will effectively mark the commencement of study of business in the institution and the first in the northern part of Nigeria.
The Dangote Group recalled that Dangote was also building a similar business school in the University of Ibadan and it would be launched anytime soon.
The business schools being undertaken by the Aliko Dangote Foundation, according to the president of the Dangote Group, are part of efforts to build entrepreneurship in the sub-consciousness of Nigerians through education at the highest level.
He explained that Nigeria’s situation today bnecessitates revisiting school curriculums to reflect the new consciousness of entrepreneurship and manufacturing and efforts made to encourage study of business, especially at the second level in the university.
The building is a modern business school within the premises of BUK. It comprises auditoriums, lecture theatres, offices, classes, library, and complete electrical fittings and cooling system, among others
Speaking on the gesture by the Africa’s richest man, the dean of Faculty of Dangote Business School, Prof. Murtala Sagagi, said, “We had an ambition to have a business school and we could not go ahead with the project because there was no befitting structure to accommodate the kind of dream we had but with Dangote coming in about five years ago and that was when the university decided to say this is the time to have the business school,” he said.
He noted that Kano was the second most vibrant commercial city in the country after Lagos, saying “we have industries, banks, different type of businesses, micro, small, medium and large enterprises.
“We have large-scale investors from China, Spain and all over the world coming to Kano to make investment and this means the state needs an institution, a kind of faculty, that can develop capacity of not only the management of those organisation but those people who are working in different units or department within the organisation.”