No trains linking regions to mitigate the multiple harassments on the road, high electricity costs (where available), and if it's successful the government will tax you in different ways. Add the fact that a lot of people don't trust locally made products amongst other problems.
Nigeria has a serious processing problem.
Processing becomes extremely difficult when logistics, security, and power (electricity) are all very expensive.
Take jam-making, for example. We could be making a killing in this sector. Yet fruits go to waste every season simply because there is no reliable electricity to preserve them. Fuel costs eat deeply into overhead, and you have to pay duties at multiple checkpoints when transporting food across states. How do local producers and processors compete with international brands that don’t face these same challenges?