It doesn't pay us as a country to import a whole pencil when we have so much unemployment and so much of those things we can also use in making our own.

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vanguardngr.com why his administration established Nigeria's first pencil manufacturing factory, Emmanuel argued that local production would reduce imports, create jobs, and stimulate industrial growth.

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