Sixty-five years after Independence, Nigeria’s manufacturing sector remains trapped in underperformance, with experts warning that decades of reliance on import-dependent industrialisation, structural bottlenecks, and policy inconsistencies have undermined growth.
According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), manufacturing contributed just 9.62 percent to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter (Q1) of 2025, a modest rise from 7.62 percent in the previous quarter but far below the 20 percent benchmark re
