By: ROTIMI ASHER (with Agency report) The National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) is targeting 40 per cent local content development in the automotive sector within the next five years. The Director General of the council, Mr Aminu Jalal, disclosed this last, when fielding questions from newsmen in Abuja. According to Jalal, NADDC’s emphaisis…
By: OLOWOJOBA JOSEPH (olowojobajoseph@netzero.net) [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he new Chinese FAW truck with a ready assembly plant in Nigeria is significant. The fact that the company did not just stop at setting up a truck plant, but also went as far as generating its own power show how much faith the FAW Plant investors have in Nigeria economy….
Maiden edition of 2016 Grills2Grills automobile and bike show was held recently at Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos, Nigeria. [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n a statement made available to Motoring World last week, Weststar Associates, Nigeria’s representative of Mercedes-Benz and one of the event’s sponsors, described the show as being successful. The two-day weekend event, which held on the…
If Nigeria were to follow the route that India has adopted and effectively stop used car imports, the effect on the Nigerian economy would be substantial with an increase in home based manufacturing, observes PHILOMENA EDGAR [dropcap]I[/dropcap]ndia is a strange country. It has 22 official languages. According to the Census of India, the total number…
