AfCFTA Will Only Benefit Nigeria If Manufacturers Can Compete – MAN

The president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Otunba Francis Meshioye, has said Nigeria’s participation in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will only be commercially meaningful if Nigerian manufacturers can compete on cost, quality, standards and delivery.
Meshioye stated this in his welcome address at the opening ceremony of the three-day Made-in-Nigeria Exhibition, held as part of the 54th Annual General Meeting of MAN in Lagos on Monday.
The exhibition is themed: ‘Leveraging National Industrial Policy to Position Nigeria as Africa’s Industrial Hub’.
According to him, positioning Nigeria as Africa’s industrial hub requires more than expanding the...