ANNIE ALLEN (EU Correspondent) Euro NCAP has released the results of its biggest safety test of the year. And the verdict is clear: 2025 is shaping up to be one of the safest years yet for new cars. Twenty-three fresh models, spanning electric SUVs, luxury coupés, crossovers, and family haulers, have been put through the…
The G20 Environment and Climate Ministers have adopted a landmark declaration on air quality. It is a major shift for the world’s biggest economies. The bloc now openly links clean air to prosperity and long-term sustainability. The declaration fits the G20’s core priorities. It also draws from the African philosophy of Ubuntu. “Local air quality…
The Director General of the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Otunba Oluwemimo Joseph Osanipin, has warned that Nigeria cannot achieve true national security without rebuilding its industrial backbone, especially its automotive and technology-producing capacity. Addressing senior military officers and strategic actors at the National Defence College, Abuja, Osanipin told participants of Course 34…
ANNIE ALLEN Kia America has announced yet another major safety recall—this time affecting 250,547 units of the 2021–2024 Kia K5, after U.S. regulators flagged a serious fuel tank defect that could cause the tank to melt, leak and ignite. According to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the vehicles—produced at Kia Georgia between…
