Nigeria invests €346m in food, packaging tech in 2021

L-R: Yusuf Sanni, assistant director, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Isolo, Lagos; Team Lead, Aishat Bello-Garuba, corporate services, Leadway Assurance; Odion Aleobua, chief executive officer, Modion Communications; Freyja Detjen, project manager, Fairtrade Messe GmbH & Co. KG; Amr Altantawy, commercial first secretary & head of economic and commercial office, embassy of The Arab Republic of Egypt, and Ogo Adesanya, representative of the president, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the Stakeholders meet-up and press conference for the 8th edition of Agrofood & Plastprintpack Nigeria, held recently in Lagos.

For the first time in 2021, Nigeria became the largest investor in food and packaging technology in Africa with an investment of €346 million, ahead of Egypt’s €341 million and South Africa’s €293 million, according to data from the Germany Machinery Association. Africa's biggest econom

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Damilola Odifa

Damilola Odifa is a graduate of Mass communication department from the University of Lagos with nearly 2 years experience in content writing. She currently works as a journalist in BusinessDay Media, West Africa's leading provider of business intelligence and information, where she writes on the business of agriculture, and the environment.