{"id":194753,"date":"2025-03-28T05:02:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T03:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-dangote-polypropylene-production-will-revive-textile-industry-save-nigeria-267m-man\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T05:02:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T03:02:52","slug":"nigeria-dangote-polypropylene-production-will-revive-textile-industry-save-nigeria-267m-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-dangote-polypropylene-production-will-revive-textile-industry-save-nigeria-267m-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Dangote Polypropylene Production Will Revive Textile Industry, Save Nigeria $267m &#8211; MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has stated that the production of polypropylene by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery &amp; Petrochemicals will revive Nigeria&#8217;s struggling textile industry and save the country $267 million in import costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"69\">In an interview on the Channels Business Incorporated Programme, the Director-General of MAN, Segun Kadir-Ajayi, highlighted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/tag\/dangote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struggles<\/a> of the textile industry, which was once thriving and employed over 25,000 workers aged between 18 and 40 in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503270583.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has stated that the production of polypropylene by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery &amp; Petrochemicals will revive Nigeria&#8217;s struggling textile industry and save the country $267 million in import costs. In an interview on the Channels Business Incorporated Programme, the Director-General of MAN, Segun Kadir-Ajayi, highlighted the struggles of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[50980,258,256,6698,8317,6867,257,4687,393,35731,7544,9299,7301,254,10501],"class_list":["post-194753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-267m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dangote","tag-industry","tag-man","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-polypropylene","tag-production","tag-revive","tag-save","tag-south-africa-today","tag-textile"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}