By: FEMI OWOEYE For the past seven years, Nigeria’s automobile Industry wondered in the wilderness of policy inconsistency and somersault. Before President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office in 2015, things were looking up for the industry. To activate the nation’s automobile policy, former President Goodluck Jonathan’s regime, had, from 2013, set the industry on a path…
MARK DOMMISSE Industries, in general, are aware of the need to address a variety of challenges presented by the digital world in which we now live, not least the vehicle retailing sector where Covid-19 has disrupted the world faster, and to a greater extent, than any technology possibly could have done. Globally, as lockdowns wax…
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…
ROTIMI ASHER The history of Nigeria’s auto industry is a paradox. For three decades, the nation’s successive governments failed to key into the industry’s viability. And President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has made no difference. Under Buhari’s watch, Nigeria’s auto industry has been put on a reverse gear. With Ekiti State born Otunba Niyi Adebayo on…
