Nigeria's fast-moving consumer goods sector has become a monument to policy failure — where warehouses transform into morgues for dying inventory and traders auction their livelihoods against the ticking clock of expiration dates.
In the bustling Mushin Market Lagos, Okey Anosike, a wholesaler, stares at shelves stacked with goods that once promised profit but now threaten ruin. His shop holds 25 cartons of biscuits — each carton originally valued at N50,000 — gathering dust as expi
