Nigeria loses N9bn annually to counterfeit products
Stakeholders in the home appliance and baby care industry have lamented the increasing incidence of counterfeit products, which cost the country about N9 billion annually.While the country has also lost a whopping N200 billion annually to adulterated oil, the global economy via a cross-border trade in physical counterfeit is now $250 billion annually.
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