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OUR PEOPLE Dangote Cement is one of the largest employers in Nigeria with more than 14,000 staff working in production, marketing, administration, logistics and many other functions. In total, we have 16,272 employees across Africa. With such a large workforce comes a responsibility to those we employ and so Dangote Cement strives to respect the dignity of its employees and their rights to decent working conditions. We believe in ‘unity in diversity’ and accordingly we seek to employ and retain the best human resources irrespective of disability, gender, race, ethnic origin or religion. We strive to provide employees with an atmosphere that promotes their develops their potential. The Company achieves this by continuously rolling out strategic initiatives and programmes that ensure a conducive work environment and create the atmosphere for sustainable growth and development of our staff. In line with our strategy to become a global and leading player in the cement industry, we continue to focus our efforts on expanding our operations beyond Nigeria, aligning our manpower requirements and organisational development to support our ambitious business goals. In 2016, our main human resource activities were focused upon the following areas: • Recruitment • Training & development • Organisational development • Reorganisation of corporate HR organisation Recruitment Most of the recruitment efforts this year were channelled towards: • Filling key management positions across the Group • Engagement of both local employees and ex-patriot employees to replace the Sinoma contractors in the first phase of the hand-over exercise in operations including Nigeria, Zambia, and Senegal 30 Annual Report 2016 productivity and • Recruitment of truck drivers for operations in Ghana • Recruitment exercise for coal operations in the Obajana and Ibese plants • Recruitment for new operations in Congo and Sierra Leone These gave rise to a 14% increase in the Group permanent and contract headcount Country Nigeria Cameroon 2016 14,242 205 2015 12,746 133 Congo 54 6 Ethiopia 524 Ghana 233 Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa 307 278 180 144 29 4 389 Tanzania 159 Zambia Total 385 193 183 156 16,272 14,278 Training and development Dangote Cement is constantly striving to improve the skills of its staff by providing training opportunities through the Dangote Academy, our training department and other training institutions within and outside of Nigeria. We recorded a huge success in our training and development programmes for this period. Efforts continued in the development and roll-out of robust technical training programmes with modules specific to the cement operations in Nigeria, to ensure that existing and new employees receive the requisite training and skills set for their roles. These training programmes have also included technicians from plants across Africa, many of whom have undergone a number of training courses in Nigeria during the year. In addition, we provided SAP training across the Group. We are also working in conjunction with the Dangote Academy to deploy a Foundation Skills Programme across our African operations. The areas of focus for this training programme are performance management, supervisory skills development and IT skills development.

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