 The manufacturer's association of Nigeria, MAN, has lamented the high cost of production which has lightly affected operations of members. President of MAN, Francis Mechioye made this known at the press conference to announce the association's 51st annual general meeting set to hold next week. Mechioye, while highlighting the harsh effects of double-digit inflation and high exchange rate manufacturers face, is hopeful of an eventual turnaround. The MAN president hinted that former Minister of Finance, Uluse Gwanganga, will be delivering the lecture at the annual meeting. The cost of manufacturing is daily rising, holding two scarce and unavailable manufacturing inputs that continue to shrink the sector's profitability and threaten the assistance of the Secretary of State for the economy. The DG of MAN, Shagun Ajayi Khadir, shares more insight about the association's advocacy on key economic issues affecting the sector. MAN is a fractured organization. We do not pay politics, we are not politicians. And we do not make comments on sentiments. We have part, we have people. We are not public analysts. No. We are not bookings in groups. So our data is meant to inform government action. Result to please anybody or... The AGM coming up is a very, very important platform where you have all the members of the Manufactured Association of Nigeria and you have very, very valuable people from the government, you know, having, planning, as soon, all these challenges that we have talked about. So it's an extremely important platform. That's not to say that we don't do usual advocacy, but that platform is very important because it will include everyone. The theme for the AGM is setting the agenda for competitive manufacturing under the AFCFTA. What Nigeria needs to do?