Procter & Gamble, the well established American multinational consumer goods company are making significant headway in their Lagos facility. It should be noted that it was only as recently as March of this year that they commissioned their $300 million Agbara (Ogun State) facility. The Agbara Plant is almost seven times the size of the ongoing project in Lagos State, which is a 60,000-65,000 sqm project. However the Lagos Babycare Facility will be the first industrial facility in Nigeria to be LEED accredited. LEED measures green sustainable outcomes in buildings, during the design, construction, operation and maintenance phases.

The Lagos Babycare facility is being constructed in a greenfield 50 hectare site and was designed by BHDP Architecture. The project managers and engieers are ARUP. Julius Berger are the contractors and Scope Butler Building manufactured the steel frame components. The facility will not only be Nigeria's first LEED certified project of this kind, it will also be Procter & Gamble's first LEED certified project in the African continent.. This project is being built by P&G to effectively localize production within the Lagos State market.

Phase II of the project will see an additional 22,000 sqm facility, which will serve as an on-site distribution center. Nigeria is gradually witnessing increased investment in manufacturing, assemblage and harnessing of industrial products and the Procter & Gamble Babycare facility is just one of many more that are in the pipeline.

As part of efforts to improve its production capacity, Cadbury Nigeria Plc has staked about N10 billion on a new manufacturing plant to meet surging demand for its prime product, Bournvita.

According to the firm, the new plant which is fully automated, is expected to improve production capacity by nearly 37 per cent and also replace an older facility, which could not support the necessary expansion plans, including the installation of new equipment.

In a statement made available to The Guardian, the Head of Corporate and Government Affairs in West Africa for Cadbury Nigeria, Bala Yesufu, explained that the new factory would generate greater efficiencies, enhance the quality of its products and position the company to be more competitive in the market.

Yesufu added: "This state-of-the-art plant which represents the single largest investment by Mondelēz International in Africa in the last two years, is in line with our desire to keep pace with the latest technology in our business space as well as enhance the need to demonstrate our leadership position in our sub-sector of the Nigerian economy".

"As a mark of confidence in the Nigerian Economy, Mondelēz International embarked on the construction of this plant within our site at Agidingbi Ikeja Lagos which resulted into Direct Foreign Investment of over N10 billion," he said.

The unveiling of the state-of-the-art manufacturing plant which would be done by the Executive Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, is scheduled for Friday, October 16th, 2015.