Lagos – Botswana’s Vice President and Minister of Finance Ndaba Nkosinathi Gaolathe has wrapped up a two-day working visit to Lagos, Nigeria, where he sat down with Dangote Industries Limited President and Chief Executive Aliko Dangote to explore investment opportunities between the two countries.
The talks focused on deepening intra-African economic partnerships, with early discussions covering co-investment opportunities and capital market participation, including the possibility of listings on the Botswana Stock Exchange.
The engagements are in line with priorities set out under Botswana’s National Development Plan 12 and the Botswana Economic Transformation Programme. 
During his time in Lagos, Gaolathe toured two of Dangote’s flagship facilities, the Dangote Fertiliser Plant, which produces three million metric tonnes of urea annually, and the Dangote Refinery, an integrated refining complex with a capacity of 650,000 barrels per day.
A follow-up engagement is being considered for June 2026, this time on Botswana’s soil.
