Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited (ASCL) popularly referred to as Ajaokuta Steel Mill is Nigeria’s largest steel plant positioned in Ajaokuta, Kogi State, Nigeria. Built on a 24,000 hectares (59,000 acres) site in 1979 with the coke oven and byproducts plant bigger than most of the refineries in Nigeria combined is reported to finally start production, four decades later..