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Sincere9gerian:
He did his best for this country but because he is from minority tribe they conspired against him, ethnically, slammed him with all manner of accusations and hounded him out of office.

He is out of office but his programmes and policies are still standing tall, because they were well intentioned and well thought out. Even his enemies now try to lay claim to some of his legacies.

God bless GEJ, the father of Nigeria's democracy and a great ambassador of peace!

Cc: lalasticlala

brize:
Aaaaah i pray to every one of you here to be alive and active and also present to eat the fruit of your labour....... Amen...... Jonathans labour is still manifesting and President Buhari is still witch-hunting

ROSSIKE:
Nigeria’s auto plans can help us, says Nissan SA


BY DAVID FURLONGER, AUGUST 06 2015, 06:59


NIGERIA will have its own motor industry whether South Africa likes it or not, says Nissan SA MD Mike Whitfield. Failure by South Africa to support it will simply open the door for other countries to benefit from the billions of rand of business that will ensue.

Mr Whitfield was responding this week to doubts about the wisdom of South Africa actively helping Nigeria to create an industry that could become a rival. Former SA trade and industry minister Alec Erwin has been advising Nigeria on setting up an industry, using his previous experience in helping to modernise SA’s motor sector.

Nigeria’s automotive policy is based on South Africa’s 1995-2012 motor industry development programme, which Mr Erwin implemented. In an interview on Monday, he said the industries would complement each other, not compete.

Several multinationals have begun building vehicles in Nigeria, and others are waiting in the wings. The companies are all assembling imported kits. Nigerian officials say they hope the industry will begin producing its own components within two years but motor company executives say it is likely to be at least 10 years before the industry starts to become self-sufficient.

Nissan SA is sending kits to Nigeria. NP300 one-ton bakkies are crated in pieces at the Rosslyn plant near Pretoria then shipped to Nigeria, where they are put together. Mr Whitfield said that this year, Nissan SA expected to send "rather more" than the 3,000 vehicles it shipped to Nigeria last year.

Rosslyn, which also produces the NP200 half-ton bakkie, will build about 40,000 vehicles this year — just more than a third of its 110,000 capacity. Mr Whitfield is expected to announce a plan before year-end to close the gap, possibly with an additional vehicle range.

However, he said the Nigerian operation would not diminish Nissan SA’s activities. The African new-vehicle market was expected to grow from 1.4 million vehicles in 2014, to 2.2 million by 2020. If that happened, there would be plenty of opportunity for two Nissan plants.

Nigeria, he said, was always going to get its own motor sector.

Though it had failed to sustain one in the 1980s, circumstances had changed. It was closer than SA to major African population centres and its new-vehicle market was negligible. Analysts say that if new import duties reduce Nigeria’s thriving used-car business, the market for new cars could explode from 40,000 to nearly 1 million.

In many respects, Whitfield said, Nigeria was similar to Brazil, which in a few years had gone from a tiny base to building more than 3 million vehicles annually.

"If, over the next 10 years, the Nigerian auto industry can achieve half as much as Brazil did over the same period, it will be doing very well," he said.

The South African industry, he added, "can’t afford not to be there. If we’re not, someone else will be. If we and Nigeria co-operate, we will develop each other."

http://www.bdlive.co.za/business/trade/2015/08/06/nigerias-auto-plans-can-help-us-says-nissan-sa

Sincere9gerian:
He did his best for this country but because he is from minority tribe they conspired against him, ethnically, slammed him with all manner of accusations and hounded him out of office.

He is out of office but his programmes and policies are still standing tall, because they were well intentioned and well thought out. Even his enemies now try to lay claim to some of his legacies.

God bless GEJ, the father of Nigeria's democracy and a great ambassador of peace!

Cc: lalasticlala

all4lucybaby:
Who be dis?

Sincere9gerian:
He did his best for this country but because he is from minority tribe they conspired against him, ethnically, slammed him with all manner of accusations and hounded him out of office.

He is out of office but his programmes and policies are still standing tall, because they were well intentioned and well thought out. Even his enemies now try to lay claim to some of his legacies.

God bless GEJ, the father of Nigeria's democracy and a great ambassador of peace!

Cc: lalasticlala

brize:
your grand pa

laurel03:
If no be bad leaders seriously no be south africa type....

Sincere9gerian:
He did his best for this country but because he is from minority tribe they conspired against him, ethnically, slammed him with all manner of accusations and hounded him out of office.

He is out of office but his programmes and policies are still standing tall, because they were well intentioned and well thought out. Even his enemies now try to lay claim to some of his legacies.

God bless GEJ, the father of Nigeria's democracy and a great ambassador of peace!

Cc: lalasticlala

Chiefpriest1:
Nice to read this. Let them get to work already. Na so so Nissan don come, Toyota dey manufacture, Kia don roll out we dey hear o!

Where are their Nigerian offices, don't they advertise for job vacancies. We 've been hearing this for two years now.

The market is huge here. I hope Nigeria gets it right this time.

Boss13:
He is a good man but an incompetent president who saw nothing wrong in fleecing the public treasury. Under his watch, a lot of atrocities and abnormalities were perpetrated. Nigeria is too big a country to deserve such a president and I pray we never see his likes in Aso rock again.

ROSSIKE:
Nigeria’s auto plans can help us, says Nissan SA


BY DAVID FURLONGER, AUGUST 06 2015, 06:59


NIGERIA will have its own motor industry whether South Africa likes it or not, says Nissan SA MD Mike Whitfield. Failure by South Africa to support it will simply open the door for other countries to benefit from the billions of rand of business that will ensue.

Mr Whitfield was responding this week to doubts about the wisdom of South Africa actively helping Nigeria to create an industry that could become a rival. Former SA trade and industry minister Alec Erwin has been advising Nigeria on setting up an industry, using his previous experience in helping to modernise SA’s motor sector.

Nigeria’s automotive policy is based on South Africa’s 1995-2012 motor industry development programme, which Mr Erwin implemented. In an interview on Monday, he said the industries would complement each other, not compete.

Several multinationals have begun building vehicles in Nigeria, and others are waiting in the wings. The companies are all assembling imported kits. Nigerian officials say they hope the industry will begin producing its own components within two years but motor company executives say it is likely to be at least 10 years before the industry starts to become self-sufficient.

Nissan SA is sending kits to Nigeria. NP300 one-ton bakkies are crated in pieces at the Rosslyn plant near Pretoria then shipped to Nigeria, where they are put together. Mr Whitfield said that this year, Nissan SA expected to send "rather more" than the 3,000 vehicles it shipped to Nigeria last year.

Rosslyn, which also produces the NP200 half-ton bakkie, will build about 40,000 vehicles this year — just more than a third of its 110,000 capacity. Mr Whitfield is expected to announce a plan before year-end to close the gap, possibly with an additional vehicle range.

However, he said the Nigerian operation would not diminish Nissan SA’s activities. The African new-vehicle market was expected to grow from 1.4 million vehicles in 2014, to 2.2 million by 2020. If that happened, there would be plenty of opportunity for two Nissan plants.

Nigeria, he said, was always going to get its own motor sector.

Though it had failed to sustain one in the 1980s, circumstances had changed. It was closer than SA to major African population centres and its new-vehicle market was negligible. Analysts say that if new import duties reduce Nigeria’s thriving used-car business, the market for new cars could explode from 40,000 to nearly 1 million.

In many respects, Whitfield said, Nigeria was similar to Brazil, which in a few years had gone from a tiny base to building more than 3 million vehicles annually.

"If, over the next 10 years, the Nigerian auto industry can achieve half as much as Brazil did over the same period, it will be doing very well," he said.

The South African industry, he added, "can’t afford not to be there. If we’re not, someone else will be. If we and Nigeria co-operate, we will develop each other."

http://www.bdlive.co.za/business/trade/2015/08/06/nigerias-auto-plans-can-help-us-says-nissan-sa

Henry120:
There is no country or currency where cars are "Cheap", not in the U.S, not even in Japan and definitely not in Nigeria.

Whether for ordinary people or those in the middle class. Average American families earning $35 - 40,000 a year, can't just pull out that money and purchase a Vehicle worth around 20,000 - 35,000 dollars.

The question you should be asking is, do we have proper credit facilities in place which can afford average working Nigerians the opportunity to afford these new cars?

Not the drivel you are spewing up there.

Ciscogod:
Most people gat no problem with gej. The problem is the people he surrounds himself with. The ones he trust so much. Those ones are not loved by the society and they did not do their best to show his good works also. Even during the campaign, all the propagandas was against his ministers and associate. Gej won 2011, just as abiola won 1993 election. He got vote from all the zones.

ROSSIKE:
Nigeria’s auto plans can help us, says Nissan SA


BY DAVID FURLONGER, AUGUST 06 2015, 06:59


NIGERIA will have its own motor industry whether South Africa likes it or not, says Nissan SA MD Mike Whitfield. Failure by South Africa to support it will simply open the door for other countries to benefit from the billions of rand of business that will ensue.

Mr Whitfield was responding this week to doubts about the wisdom of South Africa actively helping Nigeria to create an industry that could become a rival. Former SA trade and industry minister Alec Erwin has been advising Nigeria on setting up an industry, using his previous experience in helping to modernise SA’s motor sector.

Nigeria’s automotive policy is based on South Africa’s 1995-2012 motor industry development programme, which Mr Erwin implemented. In an interview on Monday, he said the industries would complement each other, not compete.

Several multinationals have begun building vehicles in Nigeria, and others are waiting in the wings. The companies are all assembling imported kits. Nigerian officials say they hope the industry will begin producing its own components within two years but motor company executives say it is likely to be at least 10 years before the industry starts to become self-sufficient.

Nissan SA is sending kits to Nigeria. NP300 one-ton bakkies are crated in pieces at the Rosslyn plant near Pretoria then shipped to Nigeria, where they are put together. Mr Whitfield said that this year, Nissan SA expected to send "rather more" than the 3,000 vehicles it shipped to Nigeria last year.

Rosslyn, which also produces the NP200 half-ton bakkie, will build about 40,000 vehicles this year — just more than a third of its 110,000 capacity. Mr Whitfield is expected to announce a plan before year-end to close the gap, possibly with an additional vehicle range.

However, he said the Nigerian operation would not diminish Nissan SA’s activities. The African new-vehicle market was expected to grow from 1.4 million vehicles in 2014, to 2.2 million by 2020. If that happened, there would be plenty of opportunity for two Nissan plants.

Nigeria, he said, was always going to get its own motor sector.

Though it had failed to sustain one in the 1980s, circumstances had changed. It was closer than SA to major African population centres and its new-vehicle market was negligible. Analysts say that if new import duties reduce Nigeria’s thriving used-car business, the market for new cars could explode from 40,000 to nearly 1 million.

In many respects, Whitfield said, Nigeria was similar to Brazil, which in a few years had gone from a tiny base to building more than 3 million vehicles annually.

"If, over the next 10 years, the Nigerian auto industry can achieve half as much as Brazil did over the same period, it will be doing very well," he said.

The South African industry, he added, "can’t afford not to be there. If we’re not, someone else will be. If we and Nigeria co-operate, we will develop each other."

http://www.bdlive.co.za/business/trade/2015/08/06/nigerias-auto-plans-can-help-us-says-nissan-sa

Mbkite:
A new page! Everything started working since PMB took over. Am not saying he is the one making things to work but, all I know is that things are working better!
QED.

Mbkite:
A new page! Everything started working since PMB took over. Am not saying he is the one making things to work but, all I know is that things are working better!
QED.

Ichieboxy:
Plz quit the lie...Jonathan was maligned and called incompetent, clueless, and inefficient leader who achieved NOTHING... Most of APC guys drew emoticons here mimicking his employment and job creation statistics as well as achievement portfolio

Henry120:
God bless him!

anonimi:
Thank you, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the hero of our democracy.


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