Dangote Group has won won the ‘Overall Most Responsible Business’ award just as three of its subsidiaries clinched awards at the 16th edition of the Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and Responsibility Awards (SERAS).

Dangote Cement Plc, at the event held in Lagos, won an award for ‘The Best Company in Reporting & Transparency’.

Dangote Sugar Refinery (DSR), which participated in the SERAS for the first time in 2020, won the award of ‘Best Company in Food Security’, while Dangote Salt Plc also known as NASCON Plc, won an award for the ‘Best Company in Gender Equality/Women Empowerment’.

Dangote Group and its philanthropic arm, Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF), were also recognised among those participants who have featured at SERAS over the last 15 years, alongside other companies like Guinness Plc, Nigeria LNG Limited, Mobil, Airtel, Lafarge, Access Bank Plc, Glo Telecommunications, Zenith Bank Plc, Unilever, Nestle, and Channels Television, amongst others.

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Speaking on the development, the Group Chief Branding and Communications Officer, Dangote Industries Limited, Anthony Chiejina, said: “DIL’s approach is focused on mainstreaming sustainable practices across the operations of the organisation. This underlines the importance that we attach to our people, communities and other key stakeholders.”

On her part, the Executive Director, TruCSR/The SERAS CSR Awards Africa, Mary Ephraim, stated that “CSR and sustainability have gone through their evolution. From philanthropy (the era of being back) to CSR (the era of giving back) to sustainability (the era of going back) and now to circularity (the era of bringing back).”

“The conversation before now had been about how we could leave a befitting world for our children to inherit. But at the moment, it is how we as parents can live so that our offspring get the opportunity to survive. This is why we chose the theme – Climate, Circularity, and the Future of Sustainability: Bridging the SDGs Gap through Impact Investing,” Ephraim added.

The Star