THE Dangote Group of Company has said that it has a reserve of raw materials for cement production at the Obajana Cement Plant in Kogi State that would last for between 65 to 70 years.
This is even as the Company has organised a 2-day Environmental Journalism workshop for about 50 journalists that cut across some states in the North-Central region of Nigeria.
The workshop which was held at Dangote Academy, Obajana, Kogi state is with the theme: “Reporting the environment for sustainability.”
Engr Benjamin Orekoya, Assistant Manager in charge of production at Obajana Cement Plant disclosed this during an excursion organised for participants around the plant on Tuesday.
The Assistant Manager who was accompanied by Engr Juliana Ishaya who took turn to explain the workings at the Plant also pointed out to participants conveyor belts that carries raw materials for cement production spanning about 8.5 kilometres from the mines to the point of final production.
The excursion took participants to the mines and the mix storage, where the boulders are crushed and reclaimed and sent to the raw mill before the products are grinded into powder.
The power is then sent into a silo and heated at a temperature of 1450 degrees Celsius, sent to the 75,000 tonnes clinker silo; from where it goes to the mill, where gypsum is added and grinded before being refined to cement and packaged.
Earlier on Tuesday, Publisher Nature News, Aliu Akoshile, in his paper presentation, titled “Journalism in an era of climate change: Responsibilities, Challenges and Opportunities,” said he was averse to Citizen journalism as it breeds fake news.
He advocated the need for proper gatekeeping for citizen journalism and explained that citizen journalism should not be allowed to mislead the people with disinformations and misinformations.
Akoshile decried the situation where fake news derived through citizen journalism tends to affect the integrity of the conventional media.
He advised journalists to plunge into environmental reporting with the mindset of doing advocacy, adding that journalists must understand the basics and concept of the environment to report environmental issues effectively.
