NASCO biscuits founder, Ahmed Nasreddin is dead

Ahmed Idris Nasreddin, the founder of NASCO Group of Companies, the manufacturers of local variety of biscuits in Nigeria, has died aged 97.

According to family sources the business mogul died in Rome, Italy on Saturday.

In a condolence message signed by Makut Macham, spokesman for the governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, the governor expressed the deep condolences of the people and Government of Plateau State to the NASCO family over the loss.

Mr Lalong described the passing of the patriarch of the NASCO family as a great loss not only to the family, but to people of Plateau State and Nigeria as a whole.

Lalong described the passing of the patriarch of the NASCO family as a great loss not only to the family, but to people of Plateau State and Nigeria as a whole.

He said the late Nasreddin was a visionary leader who established NASCO in Jos in 1963 as the first jute bag factory in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa, in response to the desire of the Nation’s founding fathers to meet the challenges for the effective bagging, storage and export of the large agricultural products from the country.

“This vision by the late Dr. Ahmed Idris Nasreddin saw the company growing from its little beginnings to become a major conglomerate with successful companies in manufacturing, real estate, hospitality and logistics, trading among others. NASCO has over the years remained a major employer of labour in Plateau State and continues to contribute to the economic prosperity of the State and Nigeria at large through tax revenue and corporate social responsibility,” the statement in part read.