zheroes:
don't you think certain conditions need be met before a topic hits font page? please stop spreading hate. we are one Nigeria!!!

please stop saying this one Nigeria....its getting irritating!!

meccuno:
please stop saying this one Nigeria....its getting irritating!!

so irritating bro

Allwility:
Good one for the Nigeria Air force and Innoson. The government need to patronize our local industries more and give them defence contracts. We need to look inwards for certain things and not always expecting help from overseas. This statement sums it all:



I am looking forwad to the day the Nigeria military would partner with Nigeria universities on weapons research like other countries do. You will be amazed at the results they will churn out. The government should also partner with the locals at Abala, Abia State. Those guys produce AK47s as a hobby.

Lastly, DICON needs to be revived. Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar once lamented that DICON was established about the same time as its Brazilian counterpart. But while the latter has gone on to produce sophisticated weapons, DICON has been reduced to producing bullets.

are you sure they still produce bullets?....the one am sure of is SALT

mercyville:
Everybody knows that Innoson assembles cars except the not discernible ones but it is a big leap out of the quagmire we had been initially.From here Innoson and some indigenous coys like proforce in Ogun state who say they build armored vehicles but the truth is that they assemble them using some locally gotten materials and Elizade(toyota) in Lagos,would eventually get it right and we would have at least a Nigerian vehicle of 70% local content.
GEJ helped IVM massively and Innoson had not disappointed GEJ and Nigerians in general.Kudos to GEJ...
Kudos to IVM...the sky is your limit.

Do you know what percentage of the Innoson vehicle is local?

[quote author=engrchykae post=44067389][/quote]Kudos to you if you are really an Igbo guy because I have not seen one on NL so level headed.Igbos are great people but it is this bragging thing that seem to make people hit at them.In my own case,I give facts and links to buttress my points to disprove whatever they are bragging about whenever I come online.The funny thing is some of them are mods like winniz and they sometimes bounce me off their quotes because they know I would expose their falsehood...lol
The South of Nigeria had always been great.The likes of the Benin empire,Oyo empire,The great Nri kingdom but unfortunately lumped together with the North but unfortunately still,the better part..south of Nigeria is always at one another's throats..fighting for supremacy on some frivolities while our jugular veins are in the hands of the north.
Some think that the solution is running away from the battle field...
Some think that we can cunningly wrestle power from the north and it was done and given to the goose that laid the golden egg but unfortunately the goose from the South faced largely one part of the south and the entire north forgetting that cunny man die,cunny man bury am.
It is unfortunate that the South continues to dig more holes for itself by one going against the other in every aspect like say the north don jazz us...na wah o...
If we are still together,I think the South must as a matter of fact come together as a unified force in order to move Nigeria forward.
Kudos once again to Innoson.
More grease to your elbow.
The sky is your limit!

meccuno:
please stop saying this one Nigeria....its getting irritating!!

ZZ22:
so irritating bro

Don't y'all want one Nigeria?

fairheven:
are you sure they still produce bullets?....the one am sure of is SALT

Nice one
Proudly Naija

Nice one
Proudly Naija

kobonaire:
Don't y'all want one Nigeria?

Its Irritating because people will open their mouth and shout one Nigeria in hypocrisy but will never practice the so called oneness

Igbos are the economic pillars of this country, the china of africa

abdulkayus:



Ir is act like urs that makes other people to be careful of ur tribe. This chest beating and superiority complex will be u guys Waterloo, it wouldn't take u guys anywhere. The same government that u guys despise and called unprintable names are the obe patronising the IVM. If the government has the same mindset as urs, they wouldn't have approached the company at all.

whatever he said is unadulterated truth. he built this from 20 pounds. ask awolowo

Thanks to GEJ policies that improved industrialization

Don't quote me if ure an ignoramus

narrowpathy:
Its Irritating because people will open their mouth and shout one Nigeria in hypocrisy but will never practice the so called oneness

ok, I see your point...

[quote author=mercyville post=44069823]Kudos to you if you are really an Igbo guy because I have not seen one on NL so level headed.Igbos are great people but it is this bragging thing that seem to make people hit at them.In my own case,I give facts and links to buttress my points to disprove whatever they are bragging about whenever I come online.The funny thing is some of them are mods like winniz and they sometimes bounce me off their quotes because they know I would expose their falsehood...lol
The South of Nigeria had always been great.The likes of the Benin empire,Oyo empire,The great Nri kingdom but unfortunately lumped together with the North but unfortunately still,the better part..south of Nigeria is always at one another's throats..fighting for supremacy on some frivolities while our jugular veins are in the hands of the north.
Some think that the solution is running away from the battle field...
Some think that we can cunningly wrestle power from the north and it was done and given to the goose that laid the golden egg but unfortunately the goose from the South faced largely one part of the south and the entire north forgetting that cunny man die,cunny man bury am.
It is unfortunate that the South continues to dig more holes for itself by one going against the other in every aspect like say the north don jazz us...na wah o...
If we are still together,I think the South must as a matter of fact come together as a unified force in order to move Nigeria forward.
Kudos once again to Innoson.
More grease to your elbow.
The sky is your limit!
[ i am not sabotaging my ethnic people but i must tell u that whenever u see a bragging igboman, there is 98% chance he is from Anambra part of igbo.
Now i am not in anyway saying that the Anambra man is less igbo or more igbo than others because the entire igbo community acknowledge their industrious prowess.
The imo man is like yoruba especially owerri side where every family have at least one graduate,with highly civil service dependent population
then abia is a mixture of the two mixing ingenuity with education but they dont bragg about their achievements.
Ebonyi is coming up ever since Sam Egwu decided to go into human development driven policies during his tenure.
I didnt mention Enugu because its 98% the same with Anambra.
BUT KNOW THAT WHEN AN ENEMY SHOWS UP THE IGBO PEOPLE ARE ONE.
We can even adopt others as our own as u can see in the case of jimi agbaje and Gej.
As for Gej let me tell u why most of us wanted him to continue.it is because of the implementation of the confab reports because we knew that pmb cannot implement it.we may be right or right about Gej following through his promises of implementing the confab report.but he is a better bet in that direction.
But my annoyance with him is that he should have commenced implementation of the reports.
Also i want u to know that Gej never did anything for us except his auto policy that helped IVM and settling of his political cronies which i think he did across the regions.
His 12 federal universities,he placed 9 in the north while placing 3 in the entire south.one for ekiti,one for ebonyi and one for bayelsa and all of them are pdp states.
So he did not concentrate on any particular south rather he was licking the ass of the north not knowing that they understand one language POWER.
WITH YOUTHS LIKE U THERE IS HOPE

May God help and bless my country, Nigeria

IVM again? Kari go joor

kobonaire:

Do you know what percentage of the Innoson vehicle is local?

I think IVM has achieved 70% local content and we can reasonably say these cars and others in its range are made in Nigeria products...
Read it here:

BUSINESS
INNOSON UNVEILS FIRST ‘MADE-IN-NIGERIA’
CARS
When Nigeria, on October 3, 2013, announced the
introduction of a new automotive policy aimed at
discouraging the importation of wholly assembled
automobile and encouraging local manufacturing, it
seemed like a tall dream. Innoson Motors, an
indigenous company, last week, unveiled a new
brand of vehicles, building on local assembly
successes by Hyundai and Nissan.
Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company Limited
founded by Nigerian industrialist, Chief Innocent
Chukwuma, unveiled its new cars – IVM Umu, IVM
Umu and IVM Uzo- manufactured at the
company’s Nnewi plant in Anambra State, South
east Nigeria.
IVM Fox
IVM UMU
70 percent of the parts used in building the cars
were locally sourced, heralding the emergence of a
local car manufacturing industry that will, in the
nearest future, serve the region. Already, the
company has disclosed it plans to take its brand
to neighbours in West Africa, with the Republic of
Benin and Ghana on its radar. The company had
earlier impressed with its trucks and buses.
The range of Innoson vehicles is already enjoying
patronage locally, unlike in the past when
indigenous manufacturers were stifled by the lack
of appreciation of their products. Across Africa,
locally-made goods are beginning to earn respect
and desired patronage through quality assurance
and competitive pricing.
Former governor of Nigeria’s Anambra State, where
the Innoson plant is located, Peter Obi had become
a frequent buyer of the locally made vehicles by
the time he left office. Founder of the car-making
company, Chukwuma, said Obi still patronizes his
company.
Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC)
is expected to soon take delivery of Pickups made
by Innoson.
Pickups for the Nigerian Road Safety Corps
The country’s minister of trade and investment,
Olusegun Aganga, at the event held in Nnewi,
commended IVM for producing the first Nigeria-
made vehicles. He said such an investment is
necessary to expand the country’s manufacturing
frontiers.
21 auto-companies have already signed
commitments with technical partners to set up
local assembly operations, according to Nigeria’s
National Automotive Council (NAC).
http://venturesafrica.com/innoson-unveils-first-made-in-nigeria-cars/

[quote author=engrchykae post=44072037][/quote]Thanks sire.For better reading,type whatever you want to send across after[quote] and it would come out fine..cheers

abdulkayus:



Ir is act like urs that makes other people to be careful of ur tribe. This chest beating and superiority complex will be u guys Waterloo, it wouldn't take u guys anywhere. The same government that u guys despise and called unprintable names are the obe patronising the IVM. If the government has the same mindset as urs, they wouldn't have approached the company at all.

Y are u taking it personal?I just made a statement.Does I mean he didn't build it out of 20pounds?what's wrong with d comment?

NO MUCH COMMENT FROM NDI OFE MMANU and Ndi Almajiri because he is Igbo and Biafran If it were drug related issue now,they will flood nairaland uttering rubbish,one Nigeria my foot.

feedthenation:
Very good development...thanks largely to GEJ efforts.

I hear you.everything GEJ.Wailling wailer!!!!!

GUD,PROUDLY IGBO.

Innoson builds fighter jets.

Kentvilla:
NO MUCH COMMENT FROM NDI OFE MMANU and Ndi Almajiri because he is Igbo and Biafran If it were drug related issue now,they will flood nairaland uttering rubbish,one Nigeria my foot.

No,NDI AJEEYAN,there won't be much talk on this because proforce in Ogun state and Elizade motors are doing justice to building of armoured vehicles and regular vehicles respectively.

Moahmed:



I hear you.everything GEJ.Wailling wailer!!!!!

I am sorry but GEJ govt really did a lot and I mean a lot for Innoson motors and it really gladdens my heart that it is gradually paying off.Good policies of govt is one thing the automotive industry needs in Nigeria to survive.If not,they would crumble like a pack of cards.
Read this:

ENU
Local Content: An Elusive Element Of Nigeria’s
Automotive Policy
By David Ogah | 24 May 2015 | 1:48 am
Operations at a Nigerian Vehicles assembly plant
THE history of the Nigerian Automobile industry
dates back to early 1960s when private companies
like UAC, Leventis, SCOA, BEWAC, and RT Briscoe
pioneered the industry with their auto plants, using
either Completely Knocked Down (CKD) or Semi
knocked Down (SKD) parts.
The Federal Government made an entry into the
business in the 1970s through agreement it had
with a number of auto plants in Europe to set up
two car passenger and four truck and light
commercial vehicle assembly plants, using
completely knocked down parts.
The agreement later gave birth to Peugeot Nigeria
LTD (PAN), Kaduna; Volkswagen Nigeria LTD
(VWON), Lagos; Anambra Motor manufacturing
Company (ANAMCO), Enugu; Styer Nigeria LTD,
Bauchi; National Truck Manufacturer (NTM), Kano;
and Leyland Nigeria LTD, Ibadan. These companies
were however privatized in 2007.
Before they were privatised, all the automobile
firms had capacity to roll out 108,000 cars, 56,000
commercial vehicles, 10,000 tractors, 1,000,000
motorcycles and I,000,000 bicycles yearly. But the
assembly plants could not survive the harsh
economic environment, orchestrated by many
factors, so they collapsed.
Many of the auto component manufacturers,
including Dunlop and Michellin also closed shops
after establishing Rubber plantations in Calabar and
Benin respectively, for the sourcing local raw
materials. The farms are still in existence,
producing raw materials for export to feed the
factories now located outside Nigeria.
The Director of Policy and Planning at the National
Automotive Council, Luqman Mamudu, attributed
the woes of the pioneer auto assembly plants to
the absence of protectionist policy in the country,
as imported vehicles were on low tariff.
“I believe there was no sufficient protection for the
Pioneer Assembly Plants (PAP). Nigeria’s average
tariff was the lowest among all countries that
adopted automotive policy as a strategy to develop
their industry at the time the most emerging
economies did. Their average tariff against import
of fully built vehicles was over 100 percent.
Nigeria’s average is 25 percent till date, while
some countries continue to maintain tariff in
excess of 200 percent. Total ban on second hand
vehicles still apply in most countries with similar
ambition. Some even banned fully built units (FBU)
all together. Nigeria’s tariff level was too small to
encourage inflow of real automotive investment and
the technical partners did not help matters.
Therefore, investment was largely limited to
government interest. Local entrepreneurship was
limited, so there were no innovations, no
institutional frameworks like the National
Automotive Council (NAC) to guide development “
According to Mamudu, the infrastructural facilities,
which the government is now trying to provide
towards establishing capacity for “homologation
were completely non-existent”. These, he said,
include laboratories for materials, emission and
components in Lagos, Enugu, and Zaria.
“The adoption of free trade policy by Nigeria in the
early eighties without the need to protect the
critical industrial sectors finally undermined the
industry. The Nigeria automotive industry at the
time wasn’t really growing at the pace expected.
Basically, the policy, by extension, is aimed at
attracting Direct Foreign Investment (DFI), revive
the comatose plants, and encourage transfer of
technology and advance manufacturing activities
needed for the production of affordable vehicles in
the country.
This productive aspect of the Nigerian economy is
necessary because of over reliance on foreign
automobile products, which depleted the country’s
foreign exchange reserve by $3.5 billion, to make
the sector the second highest user of foreign
exchange in the country last year .The expectation
is that the policy will encourage the domestic auto
industry against the importation of fully built-up
vehicles, which presently dominate the market and
stimulate local input.
Going by the fact that there are about 2,000
component parts in a single vehicle, the new
policy, if well implemented and if Nigerians
become more patriotic to patronize the local
industry, it could lead to the development of small-
scale parts manufacturers.
The parts or components of vehicles are
manufactured mainly by small and medium scale
industries for the main manufacturers. They will
also serve the spare parts market estimated at N30
billion yearly.
According to the National Automotive Council
(NAC), no fewer than 23 new assembly plants have
either indicated interest to participate in the
evolving auto industry, or had already commenced
production or are at various stages of setting up,
while many others are still carrying out feasibility
studies.
Mamudu gave the names of new entrants into the
auto industry as Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing
Co. Ltd, ANAMCO, LeylandBusan, National Trucks
Manufacturers, PAN Nigeria LTD, Proforce LTD,
ScoaNigeria PLC, Stayr Nigeria LTD, Stallion Nissan
Motors Nigeria LTD, VON Automobile Nigeria LTD
and Dana Motors.
Others, he said are Nigeria Sino trucks LTD,
Hyundai Motors. Nigeria LTD, Nigeria–China
Manufacturing Company LTD, Honda Automobiles
West Africa LTD, and few others.
One of the reference points, as far as the success
story of the policy implementation is concerned, is
the reviewing of the Kaduna plant of PAN Nigeria.
The Peugeot maker and its technical partner, AP of
France had parted ways years ago. But with the
introduction of NAIDP, there was new approach,
that led to the resurgence and production at the
plant.
Although, the policy has attracted marginal
investment to the auto sector, there is no
corresponding investment in the local component-
manufacturing segment, which is very critical to
the success of the policy.
Stakeholders in this segment said funding was
paramount for the revival of the comatose
component manufacturing companies.
The Chairman, Motor and Miscellaneous Assembly
(MMA) sectoral group of the Manufacturers
Association of Nigeria, Chief David V.C. Obi said
the sector had been comatose for over 17 years,
adding that efforts are on to revive it.
“The lack of integrated plans to develop local
content was one of the reasons for the failure of
automotive industry in the past. But a
stakeholders’ meeting was convened last month to
discuss the prospect of developing local content,
and to form a strong automotive component
industry that will produce vehicle parts and
components for locally assembled auto products.
There are plans by stakeholders to form
automotive component system with tier1 and tier2
suppliers, which will also carry out independent
research and development.”
To do this perfectly, he said, auto component
manufacturers were divided into plastic and rubber,
chemical, welded parts metal and electrical
component to identify parts and components to be
developed, conduct national industrial gaps and
required skills for manufacturing, technical
demands and process, including market demand.
“We want serious auto manufacturers that will
start, from the scratch, with local content. Auto
manufacturing is not a small business. Nigeria
must show high level of seriousness for foreign
investors to come and start from the beginning.
That was what they did in the 1970s. Peugeot built
us up and taught us what to do. They also
organised us because they were looking for
suppliers”.
He advised concerned agency of the government to
“harmonise the auto manufacturers so as to
guarantee the right volume necessary for the
survival of component manufacturing companies,”
when they are eventually established.
Mammudu in response to enquiries on what his
agency was doing to develop local content, he
said: “ The Nigerian Automotive Manufacturers
Association (NAMA) and the Automobile Local
Content Manufacturers Association Of Nigeria
(ALCMAN) seat on the Governing Board of NAC. So
their interest has been well attended to, although
within limited fund.
From 2004 till date, over 11 billion of NAC
automotive Development fund has gone towards
funding the activities of the members of these
associations almost exclusively.”
According to him, “the impact of the government’s
effort has been limited because independent quality
automotive laboratories have not been in Nigeria
and this is what the new policy seeks to address.”
He said three laboratories for automotive
homologation are being built in Lagos, Zaria and
Enugu to drive local content “because once you are
able to produce to international specification, your
products will be accepted into the global supplier
chain as well as gain acceptance”
Continuing, he said, “There will be establishment
of automotive supplier parks in three easily
identifiable automotive clausters in Nigeria like
Anambra/Enugu; Kano/Kaduna, Lagos/Ogun.
Letters have been sent out to the various state
governments in these areas to assist with land
space.
Responses have been received from Kaduna and
Osun state. In fact, NAC has already taken
possession of 200 hectare of land offered, for free,
by Osun state government.”
The parks he said, will act as a one-stop shop for
automotive component manufacturing because it
will have its full complement of dedicated
infrastructure, including light, water,

http://m.guardian.ng/business-services/local-content-an-elusive-element-of-nigerias-automotive-policy/

chiefobdk:




whatever he said is unadulterated truth. he built this from 20 pounds. ask awolowo

But some people started without 20 pounds and they are even better than Innoson.He was ever so lucky to have gotten 20 pounds...lol

abdulkayus:



Ir is act like urs that makes other people to be careful of ur tribe. This chest beating and superiority complex will be u guys Waterloo, it wouldn't take u guys anywhere. The same government that u guys despise and called unprintable names are the obe patronising the IVM. If the government has the same mindset as urs, they wouldn't have approached the company at all.

It's just sad. People never learn, do they?

tonquendo4u:
Y are u taking it personal?I just made a statement.Does I mean he didn't build it out of 20pounds?what's wrong with d comment?

Obviously you don't have sufficient common sense to process what he said. Smh.

@pinkcita

it's somewhere around north sycamore avenue. my friends took me so i didn't pay attention to the exact place,
dRop your email and i will inbox u my number okay!!

mercyville:
I think IVM has achieved 70% local content and we can reasonably say these cars and others in its range are made in Nigeria products...
Read it here:....http://venturesafrica.com/innoson-unveils-first-made-in-nigeria-cars/

I very much doubt the figure of 70%. All the Innoson vehicles are originally engineered in China (by Dongfeng Motor Corporation) and then all major and critical parts/components are shipped to Innoson who then does the vehicle assembly operation and adding their Innoson emblem on it. Innoson may source certain parts locally like batteries, brake-pads etc, however the 70% figure of local content is very debatable.