Nigeria, April 30 -- Nigeria's Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) on Thursday issued a tax credit certificates worth N22.3 billion to Dangote Cement Plc, for the construction of Apapa-Oworonshoki-Ojota road in Lagos and the Lokoja-Obajana-Kabba road connecting Kogi and Kwara States in the country's north central region.

The FIRS' executive chairman, Muhammad Nami, who was represented by Femi Oluwaniyi, coordinating director, Tax Operations Group, made this disclosure while presenting the two tax credit certificates to Dangote Cement in Abuja, an Arisetv report said.

Julius Berger would be handling the construction of the two federal roads, while Dangote Cement Plc is to be providing the funds.

The credit certificates issued to Dango...