Across African capitals and conference stages the phrase “value addition” has become a default near-mantra. Ministers promise industrial parks, donors fund processing lines, and trade negotiators ...

These days, few miners would openly deny the role of value addition as a priority for resource-rich African economies. Yet panellists at the London Indaba clashed on whether moving down the supply ...

“Today it’s fashionable to talk about the New Economy, or the Information Economy, or the Knowledge Economy. But when I think about the imperatives of this market, I view today’s economy as the Value ...

The federal government plans to enforce a new law mandating that at least 30 per cent value be added to all of Nigeria’s natural resources before they are exported. The Minister of Innovation, Science ...

The chief executive officer of the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE), Dr Muda Yusuf, has advocated a strategic approach to Nigeria’s value-addition drive, focusing on ...