Nigeria Pushes Continental Raw Materials Integration To Boost Value Addition

The federal government has ramped up efforts for a continental raw materials integration to promote value addition, industrialization and intra-African development by harnessing the vast resources of the region.
The director general of the Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) Prof. Nnanyelugo Ike-Muonso, disclosed this in a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday ahead of the Africa’s Raw Materials Summit (ARMS) scheduled for October 19–20, 2026, in Abuja.
The summit, with the theme “From African Feedstock to African Factory,” will bring together about 1,000 delegates from across Africa and global industry partners, with more than 25 countries already expressing interes...