Eziachi:

I was surprised that the guy wanted to start in Nigeria in the first place, he is not the first and won’t be the last. I can site many instances of our guys ideas which a rotten Nigeria system that judge even business on ethnicity.  How many orders had the governments placed from the company to encourage them?

In a decent country that means business, Innosco sales executives should have been in Uganda with Jonathan as he promote the first indigenous auto company in African and sell it to his other colleagues.
My family business five years ago, built a food factory in Botswana that employs over 280 people after being messed around for years unending by Nigerian bureaucratic nonsense and red tape. We had the Citreon franchise for West/Central Africa but had to take it to DR Congo in 1985 because Nigerian rulers want a cut into what they knew nothing about and my family refused and they started playing politics of import license until we had enough.

Awutollo Group from  Abatete in Anambra state built the biggest plastic plants in Bamenda in Cameroon and Gabon because of the same problem. He is the richest man in Cameroon as we speak but few Cameroonians knew he is Biafran.  He employs over 2000 people in that country alone.
Hezekiah Ugwunze from Oba in Idemilli, had to close his Gordon shoe factory after many years of frustration by Nigeria and their unworkable and unfriendly business environment.  And now you wonder, why we wanted Biafra by all mean, as many of our guys, including my own family businesses will come back with all the jobs they had exported and who can argue the impact it will have on our youths and unemployment.

I couldn't help sighing after reading this. Its Nigeria for you. This was what they did to Agbalaka and plenty of his likes. I have forgotten the name of the prof whose method of mathematics is being used in Australia today. He was also neglected by the nigerian government. Sometimes I pray for oil to finish so Nigeria can divide for good. Imagine our graduates roaming the streets of nigeria without any job. I keep imagining the impact of over 2,000 jobs just from one company alone in Igboland. Gush! foreigners would run to our country same way we are running to europe.

What Lagos state Govt needs to do is, buy a few Buses and run them for a while, if they pass the durability test, then I see no reasons why Goverments all over Nigeria should not patronise them after all,

Have the state govt where he is operating from at the moment invested in them? Why aren't most South Eastern,South Southern state investing in them at the moment, the Rivers, Calabar etc etc just commissioned thousands of buses imported from Brazil and elsewhere,

na2day!:

. . .and while they're churning out the buses, innoson need to consider the TATA NANO MODEL, a car for d masses that cost 100,000 Rupees [that's about 300,000 Naira] with this, an average nigerian joe can afford a brand new car!
if govt no patronise dem, we go patronise dem.

Fashola will never patronize, Nigeria will never support, why?, Because it's from Igboland, if this were in Lagos now, you would have felt the impact, !!!

scorpio1:

Fashola will never patronize, Nigeria will never support, why?, Because it's from Igboland, if this were in Lagos now, you would have felt the impact, !!!

Dis Guy:


Erm Nigeria is also made up of Igbos, and the transportation business in Nigeria is predominantly controlled by Igbos-The Young Shall Grow, Odili Chukwu, ABC transport etc- so stop blaming other people, when those close to home are not investing in this 'great business' idea

9jaganja:

Ghana is annoying!!! Then they will claim it and put heavy taxes on the ones going to Nigeria, Inno company should know that he stand to make more money by exporting the product to Ghana although Ghana might impose huge sum on it, Ghana is ony .01% of African market that will be dying for this. Putting the Company where other parts are manufactured in Igbo land is the best idea. Ghana will mess you up!! They will have a protectionist policy that will want a Ghanaian to be head etc, Experiment with Nigeria and see where it goes. Nigerian government and transit should start buying buses from them. In the US here public transit buses and trains are manufactured right at home. But imagine Nigeria where cost of production will be a lot cheaper. Nigeria stands to gain a lot.

9ja independence goes on. Next our own cars, jet fighter, passenger planes (G5 for me), exotic cars etc, comes to the scene and no longer depend on you know who,

londoner:

They guy is in the business of buses, transport., He knows he is in the best country for that. He is not saying Nigeria is a dustbin or rushing off to Ghana. He knows what he is talking about the transportation sector has made many a Nigherian man (especially Igbo) millionaires. How much is he going to make in Ghana with luxurous buses? Much less than he can in Nigeria.

If his factory is as good as the article suggests, he is not starving or struggling in the country some of you here are painting as a hell hole.

kinharold:

Poor PHCN is not enough reason to go to Ghana. you can make enough profit to cover that.

ask MTN and the others

asha 80:

This is where the problem is guy.When will that happen?