Nigeria has set its sights on a $1 trillion economy by 2030, but the distance between ambition and arrival is measured not in years alone, but in kilowatt-hours, interest rates, and the willingness to transform raw abundance into finished value. George Onafowokan, a manufacturing industry leader, argues that nations do not grow wealthy by exporting what the earth gives freely — they grow wealthy by doing something to it first. The evidence is already present in rising non-oil exports and new processing investments, but the structural barriers of costly credit and unreliable power threaten to c
Manufacturing crucial to Nigeria's $1 trillion economy goal, says industry leader
Unemployment crisis in Nigeria requires manufacturing expansion to create millions of sustainable jobs across value chains.