"There can be no real growth in the Nigerian economy without a strong, virile, competitive manufacturing sector," says Rufus Giwa, president of the Manufacturers' Association of Nigeria (Man). In what he calls the "golden age of manufacturing in Nigeria", between 1973 and 1982, output expanded at 14 per cent annually and capacity utilisation averaged 65 per cent...more

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