Nigeria’ll not be Africa’s warehouse, but Africa’s workshop — Tinubu

By Yinka Kolawole 

President Bola Tinubu has declared that Nigeria will no longer be content with exporting raw materials and importing finished products, saying the country is determined to become Africa’s industrial workshop.

Tinubu, who was represented by the Minister of State for Industry, Sen.John Enoh, spoke at the 6th Adeola Odutola lecture and Presidential luncheon organised by the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) in Lagos, yesterday, with the theme, “Leveraging National Industrial Policy to Position Nigeria as Africa’s Industrial Hub”.
He said Nigeria’s ambition was to leverage its industrial policy to emerge as Africa’s industrial hub by expanding manufacturi...