Gerawa, who is the Chairman of Gerawa Global Oil Mills Nigeria Ltd., owners of the plant, said that he had invested $50m (about N18bn) in the facility. He said in Abuja on Monday that the investment was directed at expanding the soybean processing and vegetable oil refining plant in Kano. Gerawa described the wholly-indigenous plant located at Tokarawa Industrial Estate in Kano as the “biggest single oil mill in West Africa. “The plant has a standard laboratory, 10,000-tonne capacity soybean storage silos, 15 million-litre soybean oil silos and warehouses. “While refined vegetable oil is on the list of import items that are banned by the Federal government; the importation of refined linseed, castor and olive oil and crude vegetable oil is, however, not banned,’’ he said.

Source: Punch December 04, 2017 14:37 UTC