MATILDA FRANCES [dropcap]A[/dropcap]s we review the just concluded year 2016, I remember one story in particular – the cloning of Range Rover Evoque by a Chinese auto company. To be honest, we all know about Chinese goods – cheap, nasty and with a shelf life of two-day old doughnut. If you are going to clone anything,…
To a typical smuggler, who claims to be a stakeholder or car dealer, banning importation of cars through the land border means total ban. Anyway, that is the misinformation they like to spread so as to whip up sentiment. They tell ordinary man on the street that President Buhari has banned importation of used cars,…
JOE OLOWOJOBA Nigerian Government, politician and other arms of Government are nothing but a disgrace to the nation, because when local automotive assembly was conceived everyone thought Government would stop using imported vehicles. In fact, it was expected that Mohamed Buhari, Osinbajo and other Government officials would take the lead in driving local Automotive. But…
FEMI OWOEYE Then President Muhammadu Buhari talked about diversification, I clapped. When the government even boasted of reviving the petrochemical as well as the steel rolling mills, I thumped up. For I know these have always been the right way to go, even before our economy went into recess. Recession was not entirely the making…
