Aliko Dangote, president and chief executive officer, CEO, Dangote Industries Limited, DIL, signed a memorandum of understanding, MOU, with VDMA (The German Engineering Federation) in Lagos recently. Joachim Gauck, president of the Federal Republic of Germany, was on hand just as Reinhold Festge, president of VDMA (The German Engineering Federation) and Halima Dangote, executive director, DIL.