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Sunday, January 24, 2021 / 02:00PM / Sahara Group / Header Image Credit: Sahara Group
Executive Director, Sahara Group, Temitope Shonubi has said the energy
conglomerate's impressive growth trajectory since 1996 has been driven by
knowledge, business integrity, humility, diverse people, and robust global
network.
"These past 25 years, knowledge has been the empowering tool for Sahara,
business integrity our greatest asset, humility our utmost ethos, diverse
people and network our greatest value," he asserted while unveiling Sahara's 25th
anniversary logo and the Group's plan for the future.
Shonubi said Sahara had since disrupted previously held notions that put
looking to Africa for the implementation of global energy solutions beyond
imagination. According to him, since its inception, Sahara has deployed
"transformational energy initiatives" to become a conglomerate with a proud
African heritage and vast operations in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle
East Asia.
"Today, the narrative is rapidly changing with Sahara at the vanguard of
the transformational story from Africa to the world. Founded in 1996 with an
initial focus on Oil trading, Sahara Group is widely regarded as a leading
energy conglomerate renowned for championing capacity building and promoting
the 'best in Africa for Africa' to the world narrative globally," he affirmed.
Shonubi said Sahara would increase its investment in technology,
artificial intelligence, and human capital transformation as critical drivers
of its next expansion phase, adding that innovation will define Sahara's brand
positioning and offering In the coming years.
"For us at Sahara, it has been 25 years of instituting a stamp of
distinction. Like most start-ups, we were chasers then followers, and today are
the dream actualized corporation. It is much more expensive and difficult to be
a trailblazer, defying the impossible to emerge as an enterprise that creates
value innovatively, responsibly, and sustainably. Still, at Sahara we are
focused on remarkable growth and grateful for the opportunity to serve and
bring energy to life across global markets."
Sahara plans to mark its 25th anniversary with several events
and activities all through 2021 with the theme, "Harnessing Safe energy today." Emphasis will be on promoting the "capacity to do and achieve positive and
sustainable transformation" in the energy sector.
An analysis of Sahara's operational model shows that creating a
sustainable economic, social, and governance impact has remained central to
Sahara's corporate strategy. The conglomerate has grown its operations to
achieve annual revenues in excess of $10 billion, with over 4000 employees and
operations in over 40 countries. "Sahara's focus is on continuous improvement,
operational efficiency, and sustainability. We plan to deploy best-in-class
Terminal Automation System (TAS) for efficient terminal operations in the
oil & gas sector, Plant Data Visualization System (PDVS) for enhanced
remote monitoring of plant operations, Customer Energy Management (CEM), and
GIS-based Network Monitoring System (GNMS) for customer-centric power
distribution & data management services," said Shonubi.
The Group considers the activities of the Sahara Foundation as one of
its most cherished accomplishments. Following its initial partnership
with the Carter Centre to eradicate guinea worm disease in Nigeria, Sahara
Foundation has over the years, emerged as a global promoter of the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs), with over 2,000,000 (two million) beneficiaries
across its locations through interventions in Health, Education, Capacity
Building, and lately, Extrapreneurship - a concept that promotes
opportunities for social innovators and entrepreneurs.
In 2015, the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), through the
Sustainable Development Goals Fund (SDG-F) established the Private Sector
Advisory Group (PSAG) as a pivotal platform for business leaders opportunity to
contribute to extraordinary social impact and cultivate partnerships of
tremendous transformative capacity. From an initial list of 100 shortlisted
global multinational companies, the United Nations SDG-F selected 13 companies
and inaugurated them in Madrid. Within the African continent, Sahara Group was
one of the only two companies that made the final selection.
In line with its commitment to supporting growing global demand for safe
and clean energy and the shift towards a lower carbon footprint, Sahara and the
UNDP in 2019 entered into a partnership to promote access to clean and
affordable energy in Africa, with a target of providing access to clean and
affordable energy to over 650 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
"Sahara Group remains passionate about green energy and environmental
conservation. Our Green Life project, aimed at driving energy and ecological
conservation initiatives across our business operations and partnerships, saw
the Group pioneer the commencement of an electronic billing system (e-billing)
at Ikeja Electric Plc, the Group's power distribution arm to promote
environmental conservation in the energy sector," Shonubi said.
To reinforce its commitment to clean energy initiatives, Sahara Group
also initiated the use of electric buggies and bicycles at its Egbin Power,
Africa's largest privately-owned Power Plant, with plans to replicate same at
other operational facilities across the Group.
Shonubi said Sahara's zero-waste approach to promoting operational
efficiency and commitment to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic has seen
Egbin Power Plc invest in an oxygen bottling facility on the plant to harness
the oxygen generated as a by-product of the plant cooling mechanism. Egbin
Power supplies oxygen, a key ingredient in the fight for life in the ICU,
freely to medical facilities in Lagos State and the FCT, Abuja Nigeria, through
Fortitude Children's home, the largest orphanage in Nigeria.
Sahara's Covid-19 interventions also include donation of personal
protective equipment (PPE), driving Covid-19 awareness and education in
sub-Saharan Africa through educational literature in indigenous languages
across various countries and leading the delivery of the 300-bed Thisday Dome
Isolation and Treatment Centre and donation of medical equipment, including
fully equipped world-class Intensive Care Units, to the centre and other
medical facilities across Nigeria.
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