7 - Recent Trends and Patterns in Nigeria’s Industrial Development
Corresponding Author(s) : Dickson Dare Ajayi
Africa Development,
Vol. 32 No. 2 (2007): Africa Development
Abstract
This paper analyses recent trend and spatial patterns of manufacturing in Nigeria. In particular, the paper shows that industrial development in the country involved considerable artisanal crafts firms in the early stages and grew progressively in number over the years to large-scale manufacturing. The pattern of the distribution of manufacturing industries at the city level indicates that there is a marked concentration of manufacturing establishments in the southern part of the country, and especially Lagos, Ibadan and Benin in the southwest. Other locations of relative high concentration of industrial establishments are Kano in the North; and Enugu and Port Harcourt in the southeast. Although, this paper shows that production subcontracting increased and varied amongst subcontracting firms, production subcontracting relationships are concentrated in a few locations. The paper concludes that the spatial pattern could change if industrialists adopt the strategy of industrial linkages, and especially production subcontracting which has become a driving force in contemporary industrial development efforts in the world today. It is expected that the situation could be better enhanced given the ongoing privatisation of industrial concerns in Nigeria.
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- Abumere, S. I., 2002, ‘Industrial Linkages and Development in Nigeria’, in Aboyade, B. and S. Abumere, eds., Players in the Development Process: Essays in Honour of Murtala A. Adetunji, Ibadan: Fountain Publications Ltd, Chapter 10: 205-230.
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- Ajaegbu, H. I., 1976, Urban and Rural Development in Nigeria, London.
- Ajayi, D. D., 1998, ‘Spatial Patterns of Production Subcontracting in Nigeria: A Case Study of the Lagos Region’, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Geography, University of Ibadan, 221 pp.
- Ajayi, D. D., 2000, ‘The Determinants of the Volume of Production Subcontracting in Nigeria’, Nigeria Journal of Economic and Social Studies (NJESS), Vol. 42 (1): 95-111.
- Ajayi, D. D., 2001, ‘Industrial Subcontracting Linkages in the Lagos Region, Nigeria’, The Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies (NJESS), Vol. 43 (2): 265-277.
- Ajayi, D. D., 2002, ‘Temporal Pattern of Production Subcontracting in Nigeria’, Annals of the Social Science Academy of Nigeria, Numbers 14 & 15: 67-81. Ajayi, D. D., 2003a, ‘Nature and Scope of Production Subcontracting in Nigeria’,
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Ajayi, D. D., 2000, ‘The Determinants of the Volume of Production Subcontracting in Nigeria’, Nigeria Journal of Economic and Social Studies (NJESS), Vol. 42 (1): 95-111.
Ajayi, D. D., 2001, ‘Industrial Subcontracting Linkages in the Lagos Region, Nigeria’, The Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies (NJESS), Vol. 43 (2): 265-277.
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Babarinde, J. A., 1995, Industrial Migration and Residential Relocation Decisions in Metropolitan Lagos, Nigeria, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Geography, University of Ibadan.
Babawale, T. A. et al., 1996, ‘Nigeria Beyond Structural Adjustment: Towards a National Popular Alternative Development Strategy’,
Onyemelukwe, J. O. C., 1974, ‘Industrial Location in Nigeria’, in Hamilton, F. E. I., ed., Industrial Organization and Decision Making, John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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Onyemelukwe, J. O. C., 1982, ‘Manufacturing 2: Capital Goods’, in Barbour, K. M. et al., eds., Nigeria in Maps, Ibadan: Nigeria Publishers Services Ltd., pp. 108-109.
Onyemelukwe, J. O. C., 1983, ‘Structural and Locational Characteristics of Manufacturing’, in J. S. Oguntoyinbo, O. O. Areola, M. Filani, eds., A Geography of Nigerian Development, 2nd edition, Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, pp. 296-310.
Onyeonoru, I., 2003, ‘Globalisation and Industrial Performance in Nigeria’, Africa Development, Vol. XXVIII, Nos. 3 & 4, pp. 36-66.
Oriakhi, D. E., 2001, ‘Examining the Benefits of Privatization: the case of Nigeria’, The Nigerian Economic and Financial Review, Vol. 6 (2), pp.73-90.
Oyebanji, J. O., 1980, ‘Small-Scale Industries in Nigeria: Their Spatial and Structural Characteristics’, Nigerian Geographical Journal, 23 (1&2), pp. 99-111.
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Ukwu, I. U., 1994, ‘Industrialisation and Economic Development in Nigeria: the significance of the Structural Adjustment Programme’, Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies, 36 (1, 2, 3), pp. 434-448.
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