Lafarge Africa Plc, the continent’s second-biggest cement producer, plans to raise as much as ₦90 billion ($249 million) through a share sale in Nigeria that will be used to lower its debt levels. The company’s Chief Financial Officer, Bruno Bayet, was quoted by Bloomberg as saying that the sale would take place by the fourth […]
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French cement group Lafarge paid close to 13 million euros ($15.2 million) to armed groups including Islamic State militants to keep operating in Syria from 2011-2015, human rights lawyers said on Tuesday. They were speaking at a news conference on the course of French prosecutors’ preliminary inquiry into Lafarge’s operations launched in June on suspicion […]
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Seventy-five Nigerians including students and professionals are going to be part of the finalists joining hundreds of their colleagues from the Middle East and Africa for the LafargeHolcim regional awards for Sustainable Construction in Nairobi, Kenya this week. Organized by the LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, it is the most significant global competition in sustainable […]
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Lafarge Africa Plc says its parent company, LafargeHolcim, is targeting to make 25 million people beneficiaries of its affordable homeownership scheme globally by 2020, with Nigeria representing a significant figure. The firm said it inaugurated its affordable housing scheme, known as Lafarge Easy Home, three years ago and so far, 30,000 people had been impacted. […]
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