BUA Group, one of Africa’s largest infrastructure companies has announced its acquisition of majority shareholding in P.W. Nigeria Limited – a leading construction, engineering and mining company. According to BUA, the acquisition became necessary to further deepen its investments in the infrastructure business in sub-saharan Africa.
Speaking on the acquisition, Abdul Samad Rabiu, Executive Chairman of BUA Group said, “This acquisition marks the beginning of the next phase of medium term strategy for our infrastructure business following the completion of the consolidation of our cement arm, BUA Cement, in January 2020. BUA’s acquisition of majority holdings in PW Nigeria Limited provides a prime opportunity to increase our investments in the entire value chain of the cement, mining and construction industry where we already have BUA Cement Plc, the second largest cement company in Nigeria, as well as investments in other areas including mining, quarrying, construction, power and logistics amongst others. We believe P.W. Nigeria Ltd with its solid experience in building dams, roads, airports, water projects and other infrastructure projects in Nigeria provided a strong value proposition too difficult to ignore.”
Rabiu also added that, as Nigeria and most of West Africa looks to improve infrastructural development in coming years, it became imperative for BUA to position itself strategically to support critical investments and government effort and unlock latent opportunities in the infrastructure development space. The acquisition of P.W. Nigeria extends BUA’s investments, leadership and capacity in the infrastructure space and projects are expected to benefit from a tight integration of BUA’s cement business and PW Nigeria’s construction business.