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January 18, 2020
TheManufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN said that at the end of the firsthalf of 2019, an estimated of over one-point-six million historical cumulativejobs had over time been created by the sector.
TheAssociation made the announcement in an Executive Summary of the EconomicReview for the first half of 2019, in Lagos.
Specificallyin the first half of 2019, the Summary indicated that new manufacturing jobsincreased by 2,674 and 3,111 jobs from 9,320 and 8,883 jobs created in thefirst and second halves of 2018.
Inthe first half of 2019, Chemical and Pharmaceutical sectoral group accountedfor most of the jobs created in the manufacturing sector, with 2,784employments.
Domestic/IndustrialPlastic & Rubber trailed with 2,331 jobs, Motor Vehicle & Miscellaneousassembly with 2,121 jobs and Food, Beverage and Tobacco with jobs numbering1,449 in the period under survey.
Thereport revealed that total job loss declined by 2,753 from 6,050 recorded inthe first half of 2018 but increased by 710 jobs when compared with 2,587 jobslost in the second half of 2018.