Immediately you think of Manufacturing in Nigeria, there will you see raw materials begin to plead “ Pleaaaaase! come and tap us! We got potentials! We can create millions of jobs! We can send kids to school! We can create employment! We can give you FX! We can raise your purchasing power. We can increase the country’s GDP..Etc.”
As raw materials are on their knees before you, electric power supply is blinking and shaking its head in regret at your decision. Modern technology is shooting down the yet to be born idea. Manpower is warning you of recent trust scores with employees waiting to steal your idea and port. Bad roads are waiting to spoil your new machines and your finished products. Insecurity is carrying a UTC axe. Importation is waiting to tell you that your decision makes no business sense. Banks are packing their money away from you in fear. Rule of Law is ready to waste your time. Government policy is waiting to be slow with you but quickened to pamper your foreign competitors.
Amidst these 9 challenges, innovation is still hoping you will think way up to him- ever waiting to support you.
The successful manufacturer will overcome them all.
I pray that one day, Aliko Dangote and co. will conclude on leading Nigeria’s budding entrepreneurs through the roads to successful manufacturing. You know when these 9 problems see him, they don’t just keep quiet. They hold their lips and sit down in that childish “Faem? Faem!” position.

Some gypsum deposits in Nigeria