Under President Olusegun Obasanjo, a policy was introduced to make flour millers include 10 percent of cassava flour in bread. However, the policy was reversed under late Musa Yar’Adua, but revived under Goodluck Jonathan.
It was quietly shelved under the late Muhammadu Buhari. The policy has been abandoned, leaving some factories shut down.
However, a similar locally-focused policy worked in cement.
Backed by targeted government protection, import restrictions, and the Backwards Integration Policy (BIP), local giants like Dangote Ceme
