Category: Business & Industrial Insights

Single punch, single rotary, double rotary, bi-layer and effervescent presses compared on output, tooling and what each one really costs you in a Nigerian factory.

We usually try to talk them out of it. Not because ambition is a problem, but because blocks are an unusual product and scale works differently here than it does in almost anything else we source. The product will not travel A block is

That is how a great many blocks in this country are made, and it is not a caricature. Surveys of Nigerian block producers describe batching by volume using wheelbarrows, head pans and paint buckets, with mix ratios running anywhere from one bag of cement

Market note, September 2026. Fuel and tariff figures move fast; rebuild the arithmetic with your own numbers. Manufacturers Association of Nigeria data puts average daily grid availability at 16.7 hours in the first half of 2025, falling to 13.1 hours in the second half.

Prices as at September 2026 and moving. Rebuild this with your own current cement cost before you quote anybody. When cement climbed past ten thousand naira a bag earlier this year, block producers in Kano moved nine-inch blocks from N750 to N800. Sensible response.

Figures current as at September 2026. Housing data is being actively revised; check the ministry’s latest before quoting it in a proposal. For years anyone pitching a block business, a housing scheme or a cement investment opened with the same line: Nigeria has a