Nigeria’s Auto Industry in Catch-22: Open Letter to President Buhari

Your Excellency, unfortunately, you are not being rightly informed about certain contentious issues affecting the nation’s automobile industry. There is no doubt about this because your administration believes in continuity of governance. A number of important infrastructural projects started by your predecessor have either been completed or are at the point of completion, including rail…

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#Police Brutality against Motorists: Critical Ingredients for Reform

FEMI OWOEYE So much has been said about Special Anti-robbery Squad, SARS. The echo has been so loud. You would think SARS officers were not elements of the Nigerian police. Despite dissolution of SARS, a major menace that needs a remedy in the proposed police reform bill is police brutality against motorists. This has almost…

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Prayer of a Cat: What the Auto Industry needs from President Buhari

By: FEMI OWOEYE According to an old African fable, a hungry cat normally prays: “Oh God, I don’t need you to provide me any food or meat. All I ask for is to make my environment full of living rats and give me clear eyesight. I can handle the rest.” In economic terms, what the…

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Neglect of Nigeria’s Auto Industry: Lessons from Covid-19 World War

By: FEMI OWOEYE No nation, including China expected a pandemic. But it came. It caught the entire human race unaware. However, there is a major lesson to learn. The fact that, at a time like this, unusual and unexpected gains and helps could come from a least expected sector. As the pandemic ravaged even through…

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