Strengthening Local Ownership: Building Nigeria’s Engineering Capacity For Industrial Growth

As Nigeria strengthens its position as a major engineering and contracting market in Africa, the next challenge is ensuring that local companies have the capacity, infrastructure and technical expertise to deliver more of the projects driving industrial growth. A report by Business Insider Africa , citing Chinese officials, identified Nigeria as China’s largest engineering contracting market in Africa. The recognition reflects the scale of Nigeria’s infrastructure ambitions, but market size tells only part of the story. The bigger question is whether Nigeria can build the domestic capacity to capture more of the value these projects generate.
Delivering more of that work locally would ...