UAE firm to establish $200m glass plant in Nigeria

Date: 22 October 2014

A Dubai based Mara Foundation has concluded plans to establish a $200 million glass plant in Nigeria to boost employment generation in the country.

The Foundation owned by Ashish J Thakkar of Dubai has equally floated an ongoing $8 million Mara mentor one-on-one entrepreneur initiative in Nigeria.  

Speaking at the 12th Mara mentor one-on-One interactive session in Abuja, the Director of Operations of the Foundation in Nigeria, Hetal Shah, said that construction work at the Glass plant to be cited in Lagos had begun and that production would, however, commence in 2016.

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