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Sahara Group Celebrates 25 Years Of Global Expansion, Operational Efficiency

Jan 24, 2021   •   by   •   Source: Proshare   •   eye-icon 1831 views

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Executive Director, Sahara Group, Temitope Shonubi has said the energyconglomerate's impressive growth trajectory since 1996 has been driven byknowledge, business integrity, humility, diverse people, and robust globalnetwork.

 

"These past 25 years, knowledge has been the empowering tool for Sahara,business integrity our greatest asset, humility our utmost ethos, diversepeople and network our greatest value," he asserted while unveiling Sahara's 25thanniversary logo and the Group's plan for the future.

 

Shonubi said Sahara had since disrupted previously held notions that putlooking to Africa for the implementation of global energy solutions beyondimagination. According to him, since its inception, Sahara has deployed"transformational energy initiatives" to become a conglomerate with a proudAfrican heritage and vast operations in Africa, Asia, Europe and the MiddleEast Asia.

 

"Today, the narrative is rapidly changing with Sahara at the vanguard ofthe transformational story from Africa to the world. Founded in 1996 with aninitial focus on Oil trading, Sahara Group is widely regarded as a leadingenergy conglomerate renowned for championing capacity building and promotingthe '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 driversof its next expansion phase, adding that innovation will define Sahara's brandpositioning and offering In the coming years.

 

"For us at Sahara, it has been 25 years of instituting a stamp ofdistinction. Like most start-ups, we were chasers then followers, and today arethe dream actualized corporation. It is much more expensive and difficult to bea trailblazer, defying the impossible to emerge as an enterprise that createsvalue innovatively, responsibly, and sustainably. Still, at Sahara we arefocused on remarkable growth and grateful for the opportunity to serve andbring energy to life across global markets."

 

Sahara plans to mark its 25th anniversary with several eventsand activities all through 2021 with the theme, "Harnessing Safe energy today." Emphasis will be on promoting the "capacity to do and achieve positive andsustainable transformation" in the energy sector.

 

An analysis of Sahara's operational model shows that creating asustainable economic, social, and governance impact has remained central toSahara's corporate strategy. The conglomerate has grown its operations toachieve annual revenues in excess of $10 billion, with over 4000 employees andoperations in over 40 countries. "Sahara's focus is on continuous improvement,operational efficiency, and sustainability. We plan to deploy best-in-classTerminal Automation System (TAS)  for efficient terminal operations in theoil & gas sector, Plant Data Visualization System (PDVS) for enhancedremote monitoring of plant operations, Customer Energy Management (CEM), andGIS-based Network Monitoring System (GNMS) for customer-centric powerdistribution & data management services," said Shonubi.

 

The Group considers the activities of the Sahara Foundation as one ofits most cherished accomplishments.  Following its initial partnershipwith the Carter Centre to eradicate guinea worm disease in Nigeria, SaharaFoundation has over the years, emerged as a global promoter of the SustainableDevelopment Goals (SDGs), with over 2,000,000 (two million) beneficiariesacross its locations through interventions in Health, Education, CapacityBuilding, and lately, Extrapreneurship -   a concept that promotesopportunities for social innovators and entrepreneurs.

 

In 2015, the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), through theSustainable Development Goals Fund (SDG-F) established the Private SectorAdvisory Group (PSAG) as a pivotal platform for business leaders opportunity tocontribute to extraordinary social impact and cultivate partnerships oftremendous transformative capacity. From an initial list of 100 shortlistedglobal multinational companies, the United Nations SDG-F selected 13 companiesand inaugurated them in Madrid. Within the African continent, Sahara Group wasone of the only two companies that made the final selection.

 

In line with its commitment to supporting growing global demand for safeand clean energy and the shift towards a lower carbon footprint, Sahara and theUNDP in 2019 entered into a partnership to promote access to clean andaffordable energy in Africa, with a target of providing access to clean andaffordable energy to over 650 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa.

 

"Sahara Group remains passionate about green energy and environmentalconservation. Our Green Life project, aimed at driving energy and ecologicalconservation initiatives across our business operations and partnerships, sawthe Group pioneer the commencement of an electronic billing system (e-billing)at Ikeja Electric Plc, the Group's power distribution arm to promoteenvironmental conservation in the energy sector," Shonubi said.

 

To reinforce its commitment to clean energy initiatives, Sahara Groupalso initiated the use of electric buggies and bicycles at its Egbin Power,Africa's largest privately-owned Power Plant, with plans to replicate same atother operational facilities across the Group. 

 

Shonubi said Sahara's zero-waste approach to promoting operationalefficiency and commitment to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic has seenEgbin Power Plc invest in an oxygen bottling facility on the plant to harnessthe oxygen generated as a by-product of the plant cooling mechanism. EgbinPower 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, throughFortitude Children's home, the largest orphanage in Nigeria.

 

Sahara's Covid-19 interventions also include donation of personalprotective equipment (PPE), driving Covid-19 awareness and education insub-Saharan Africa through educational literature in indigenous languagesacross various countries and leading the delivery of the 300-bed Thisday DomeIsolation and Treatment Centre and donation of medical equipment, includingfully equipped world-class Intensive Care Units, to the centre and othermedical facilities across Nigeria.

 

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