Nigerian manufacturers are hard hit by a harsh operating environment, which makes production costs high and competitiveness low.
Key players who spoke to BusinessDay said unless there is a well-defined approach to resolving key constraints to reduce cost of local production, the country
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Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi
Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi is a journalist with over five years’ reporting experience. She writes on industry, agriculture, commodities, climate change, and environmental issues.
She is fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Bloomberg Media Initiative for Africa.