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Small business owners have decried the current N10 sugar levy which has compounded high inflation and insecurity that have driven at least 30 percent of small and medium entrepreneurs out of business. …

Dangote Sugar Refinery (DSR) plans to inject fresh $700 million into the Backward Integration Programme (BIP) to provide the required infrastructure for an expansion of the business.  This is to expand its Numan sugar refining…

With the rise in the prices of key ingredients for bread which is attributed to the forex and energy crises, bakers in Lagos are considering a reduction in the sizes of the grain product, ahead of another planned price increase as they seek…

An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan on Thursday granted bail to a ‘chief suspect’ in the March 9 murder of a serving federal lawmaker, Temitope Olatoye popularly called Sugar. Sugar, a member of the House of Representatives from…

The National Assembly resumed on Tuesday but adjourned till Wednesday in honour of the lawmaker representing ‎Lagelu/Akinyele Federal Constituency, Oyo State, Mr Temitope Olatoye, alias Sugar, who died on Saturday. Olatoye was shot by…

A clinical nutritionist at the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Dr Okunola Oladimeji has warned against excessive intake of sugar, stressing that honey is not an alternative to sugar. In an interview with our…

BARBARA BAKO, Abuja. The Executive Secretary of the National Sugar Development Council (NSDC), Dr. Latif Busari said on Thursday that Nigeria spends between $450m to $600m annually to import sugar. Busari in a press statement issued…

The House of Representatives on Thursday resolved to investigate the over Hundreds of billion of Naira concessionary tariff granted by the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment to sugar importers. The chamber’s resolution…

In another bold move for self-sufficiency in sugar production through the government’s backward integration policy, Dangote Group on wednesday in Minna, Niger State signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the State Government for…

The Management of Savannah Sugar Company in Adamawa, a subsidiary of Dangote Group on Tuesday announced resumption of business after over one month of closure. The Group Managing Director, Sugar, Dangote Group, Abdullahi Sule made…