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Other products from Innoson

Very lovely!

EasternLion:
Which country?

I think he meant the zoo

The leeches should come and tell us how these are also fake products...

Aren't you just happy when you wake up and realize you are an Igbo

Hotels are taking over the city of Owerri o!

Hotels are taking over the city of Owerri o! Every nook and cranny of Owerri is hotel

From Spare Parts Trader to Motor Giant: The story of Innoson
A reputation for good judgement, for fair dealing, for truth and for rectitude is, itself fortune” – HARRY WARD BEECHER, quoted by Archbishop JV Obinna in honour of ex-Governor Peter Obi and befitting for Chief Innocent Chukwuma
Innocent Chukwuma

You will never know the extent of the Innoson enigma until you come closer. By the time you have (as we did) toured the Innoson manufacturing plants, you will realise that right here in Nigeria, is a re-incarnation of a Henry Ford and his types in America, Japan and elsewhere; people who did not obtain fanciful or high-sounding university degrees and yet went on to perform technological feats that changed their immediate environments – and the wider world arena – for good.
When our editorial team was about to depart from the premises of the Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) factory in Nnewi, the industrial city of Anambra State, his manager of 25 years standing, Mr Nnamdi Onusogu, warned us not to expect a “giant filling the whole room” when entering into the presence of Chairman of Innoson Group, Chief Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma (OFR) the Okpu Uzu Ndi Igbo N’Ine, a Nigerian Centenary Award winner and winner of the Vanguard Newspapers MOST INNOVATIVE INDUSTRIALIST OF THE YEAR 2013, among 35 other awards, honours and recognitions.

When we walked into the rather spartan corporate suite lodged in the second floor of the three story head office building in Abakaliki Road, Emene, Enugu we found a rather youngish, rough-hewn man sitting behind a modest, cluttered bureau and staring at us with a blank expression as we came through the doorway. He welcomed us and bid us sit down.

Innocent is a weather-beaten, dark complexioned man with a big mark on his right cheek: a man straight from the streets. Nothing about him gives a hint of his billions and chains of manufacturing businesses. Rather, he looks like a typical factory grunt worker; at best a unit foreman.

The furnishing and the airs around his office illustrate the surroundings of a typical Igbo trader, and these are people who are not much into the glitzy shenanigans of corporate “big boys” of Lagos and Abuja.

When he needs to get into his elements, he brings out his snuff box, puts a tincture in his palm and feeds his nose. He is that kind of “local man”. But when he speaks he has a surprisingly mild, unpretentious voice.

In an interview he granted THISDAY on March 1, 2014, Chukwuma explained why he does not have a “big-town” carriage: “I am from Uru village, Nnewi. I have lived all my life at Nnewi. I do my business at Nnewi.

I have not left Nnewi for any other place. Up till now, Nnewi is still the headquarters of my chains of businesses. I started my business at Nnewi. I grew my business to what it is today at Nnewi. I came to Enugu because of the factory that I sited here. Nnewi remains my main base”.

He had on a pair of well-worn blue shorts and a white polo shirt. When he realised we were going to take photos of him, he excused himself, went into the bathroom and emerged a couple of minutes later, dressed in casual trousers and another dull grey t-shirt.

He sat down and told us he was ready. No long protocols or elaborate niceties, but straight to business.

Innocent started as trader but has exited that area and moved into big-time manufacturing. His Group consists of: Innoson Nigeria Ltd, makers of motorcycles and spare parts; Innoson Tech and Industries Ltd, plastics and household items makers; Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM), auto makers and General Tyres and Tubes Co. Ltd, Enugu, which is being run by his 26 year-old son, Nonso.

The plastic factory is the largest of its type in Africa, and produces not less than 150 different items, from motor and machinery parts to office and household necessities. It took us two whole hours to complete the tour of the factory, which is sited at the headquarters in Enugu.

It is a major achievement that such a mega-factory is thriving in a country where foreign multinational companies have been shutting down and escaping to neighbouring countries like Ghana due to unfriendly environment in a country that rates among the lowest in the world in doing business.

Read full story.........
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/03/spare-parts-trader-motor-giant-story-innoson/

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From Spare Parts Trader to Motor Giant: The story of Innoson
A reputation for good judgement, for fair dealing, for truth and for rectitude is, itself fortune” – HARRY WARD BEECHER, quoted by Archbishop JV Obinna in honour of ex-Governor Peter Obi and befitting for Chief Innocent Chukwuma
Innocent Chukwuma

You will never know the extent of the Innoson enigma until you come closer. By the time you have (as we did) toured the Innoson manufacturing plants, you will realise that right here in Nigeria, is a re-incarnation of a Henry Ford and his types in America, Japan and elsewhere; people who did not obtain fanciful or high-sounding university degrees and yet went on to perform technological feats that changed their immediate environments – and the wider world arena – for good.
When our editorial team was about to depart from the premises of the Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) factory in Nnewi, the industrial city of Anambra State, his manager of 25 years standing, Mr Nnamdi Onusogu, warned us not to expect a “giant filling the whole room” when entering into the presence of Chairman of Innoson Group, Chief Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma (OFR) the Okpu Uzu Ndi Igbo N’Ine, a Nigerian Centenary Award winner and winner of the Vanguard Newspapers MOST INNOVATIVE INDUSTRIALIST OF THE YEAR 2013, among 35 other awards, honours and recognitions.

When we walked into the rather spartan corporate suite lodged in the second floor of the three story head office building in Abakaliki Road, Emene, Enugu we found a rather youngish, rough-hewn man sitting behind a modest, cluttered bureau and staring at us with a blank expression as we came through the doorway. He welcomed us and bid us sit down.

Innocent is a weather-beaten, dark complexioned man with a big mark on his right cheek: a man straight from the streets. Nothing about him gives a hint of his billions and chains of manufacturing businesses. Rather, he looks like a typical factory grunt worker; at best a unit foreman.

The furnishing and the airs around his office illustrate the surroundings of a typical Igbo trader, and these are people who are not much into the glitzy shenanigans of corporate “big boys” of Lagos and Abuja.

When he needs to get into his elements, he brings out his snuff box, puts a tincture in his palm and feeds his nose. He is that kind of “local man”. But when he speaks he has a surprisingly mild, unpretentious voice.

In an interview he granted THISDAY on March 1, 2014, Chukwuma explained why he does not have a “big-town” carriage: “I am from Uru village, Nnewi. I have lived all my life at Nnewi. I do my business at Nnewi.

I have not left Nnewi for any other place. Up till now, Nnewi is still the headquarters of my chains of businesses. I started my business at Nnewi. I grew my business to what it is today at Nnewi. I came to Enugu because of the factory that I sited here. Nnewi remains my main base”.

He had on a pair of well-worn blue shorts and a white polo shirt. When he realised we were going to take photos of him, he excused himself, went into the bathroom and emerged a couple of minutes later, dressed in casual trousers and another dull grey t-shirt.

He sat down and told us he was ready. No long protocols or elaborate niceties, but straight to business.

Innocent started as trader but has exited that area and moved into big-time manufacturing. His Group consists of: Innoson Nigeria Ltd, makers of motorcycles and spare parts; Innoson Tech and Industries Ltd, plastics and household items makers; Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM), auto makers and General Tyres and Tubes Co. Ltd, Enugu, which is being run by his 26 year-old son, Nonso.

The plastic factory is the largest of its type in Africa, and produces not less than 150 different items, from motor and machinery parts to office and household necessities. It took us two whole hours to complete the tour of the factory, which is sited at the headquarters in Enugu.

It is a major achievement that such a mega-factory is thriving in a country where foreign multinational companies have been shutting down and escaping to neighbouring countries like Ghana due to unfriendly environment in a country that rates among the lowest in the world in doing business.

Read full story.........
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/03/spare-parts-trader-motor-giant-story-innoson/

We are leading, God is with us

Nnewi is a model that other Igbo communities should emulate, thank God that people are investing heavily in my home town Nenwe recently.

Anyone know the current status of this project?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAstWvjNIPU

DikeOha882:
Nnewi is a model that other Igbo communities should emulate, thank God that people are investing heavily in my home town Nenwe recently.

what are they investing in?

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Nnewi is the ancestral home of prominent Nigerians

[b]Igwe Orizu I (Eze Ugbonyamba) ; 15th Igwe Nnewi and the first Igbo person to own and drive a car
Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, OBE ; First Nigerian multimillionaire and father of General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (Ikemba Nnewi) ; First University graduate in the Nigerian Army, former military Governor of defunct Eastern Nigeria and first President of defunct Republic of Biafra
Dr. Edward Ikem Okeke ; Former Deputy President of the PRP Political Party
Dr. Chu Okongwu ; Former Minister of Finance, Federal Republic of Nigeria
Prof. A.B.C Nwosu; Former Anambra State Commissioner of Health & Minister of Health, Federal Republic of Nigeria
HRH Prince Nwafor Orizu ; Aristocrat, Educationist, 2nd Senate President of Nigeria (16, 1960 to January 15, 1966) and Acting President of Nigeria (1965–1966)
M.C.K Ajuluchukwu, Nigerian Journalist ; Nationalist, Anti-colonialist and first republic law-maker, uncle of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
Dr. Dozie Ikedife (Ikenga Nnewi) ; former President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo
Dr. (Chief) Edwin Leonard Anazor (Ononenyi); St. Anthony's Hospital Otolo Nnewi
Joseph N.C. Egemonye (Abianaomume Nnewi) ; Businessman, Journalist and Writer, founder of The Nigeria Monitor Newspaper, Co-founder of The Winston-Salem Chronicle Newspaper.[14]
Felix Ezejiofor Okonkwo (Okonkwo-Kano);[15] Prominent Igbo leader in Northern Nigeria (1960s).
Cletus Ibeto, CON ; Industrialist and Philanthropist
Senator Onyeabo Obi (Oso-Oji Nnewi) ; Second Republic Senator
Senator Ikechukwu Obiorah ; Nigerian Politician
Gabriel Chukwuma ; Businessman and Founder of Beverly Hills Resort & Hotel, Nnewi and Gabros International F.C., Nnewi
Late Chief. Augustine Ejikeme Ilodibe (Onwa na-etili Ora Nnewi) ; Philanthropist and Founder of Ekenedilichukwu Motors Nigeria Limited
Late Dr (Chief) David Bennet Anagwu Ofomata (Atuma Nnewi); Former Chairman, Old Nnewi LGA and First Medical Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation
Mr. Innocent Chukwuma, OON ; Businessman & Founder of Innoson Group
L. Amazu (Eze Afojulu Nnewi) ; Founder of Chi di Ebele Transport Limited and Amazu Oil
Chief C.C. Obienugh JP (Okputolokpu Nnewi) ; founder African Pioneer Company
Senator Z.C. Obi (Eze-Onunekwulu-Igbo Na Okemili Nnewi) ; First indigenous east Niger produce Manager of UAC[disambiguation needed], President of the Igbo State Union & appointed Senator in the First Republic.[16]
Criminologist K.C. Okafor-Igwe ; Philosopher & Poet
Late Chief. Onuzulike Daniel Okonkwo (Ozuome-Nnewi) ; Diplomat, Educator and Writer.[15][17]
Francis Christian Nnodumene Agbasi (Omenka Nnewi) ; Engineer and Founding Partner, Frank Agbasi & Partners.[18]
Samuel Chukwurah ; Industrialist and Founder of the now defunct Chukwurah agricultural industry
Late Issiah Nwafor (Udumotari) ; Businessman & Philanthropist
Benson Egemonye ; Nigerian professional Basketball Player.[19]
Evangelist. Cosmas Maduka ; Founder of Coscharis Group
Dame Virginia Etiaba ; First Nigerian Female Governor. Former Governor & Deputy Governor of Anambra state.
Mr. Louis Onwugbenu (Louis Carter) ; Industrialist & Philanthropist
HRH Late Prince. Sunny Obi (Igiligi Nnewi) ; Aristocrat, Businessman & Philanthropist
Engr. Obiajulu Uzodike ; Industrialist and founder of Cutix Nigeria Plc.
Chika Okafor ; Industrialist and founder of Chikason Group
Ifeanyi Uba ; Philanthropist and founder of Capital oil and Gas Ind. Ltd.
Engr. Ebele Okeke ; Head of the Civil Services of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from July 2007 to 2008
Humphrey Obimma ; Business tycoon and founder of El-nac International Ltd. Also a Philanthropist
[/b]

All i see are bunch of educated.. I repeat!!!.... highly educated bunch of philanthropist, manufacturers, inventors, scientist, builders, mentors, doctors, teachers, and great businessmen and women.. If only the Eastern region was given a chance.

finniblinks:
Hotels are taking over the city of Owerri o!

Hotels are highly concentrated where business and purchasing power influence... Development is growing.

Nice One

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Btw , i am sure the oil deposits in abia, anambara and imo state is enough to power the industrial revolution of the South east.
Unlike the Nigeria anomaly that has turned a valuable resource like crude oil into a curse, most of the oil in the east will be used for industrial consumption and power generation rather than the largely unprofitable export.
The likes of Dr. barth Nnaji of geometric power will be very useful .

Hotels n factories

asha80:
what are they investing in?

Any Nigerian who doesn't know that Nnewi is the Detroit of Nigeria should be tossed into River Niger.

Anaedo nnewi land has produced a lot of very wealthy business people many years ago before nigerian Independence their wealth's is inborn in them from generation to next.

Like someone told me if nigeria as a country dont have crude oil remove the oil money some people looted and become billionaires over night if you minus oil from nigeria it will be very hard to see anyone that will challenge nnewi people

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Transportation
Nnewi is well known as the home of several transport and logistics businesses since the end of the second world war. Philip Odumegwu Ojukwu was one of Nigeria's first transporters and since then, many more transporters have emerged from Nnewi. Some of the Nnewi owned transport firms in Nigeria are:

Chi Di Ebere Transport Ltd
Ekene Dili Chukwu Nig. Ltd.
Ijeoma Motors Nig. Ltd.
Ekeson Motors Ltd
Izuchukwu Nig. Ltd.
Nsoedo Transport Ltd
Orizu Transport Limited
Bluebase Transport Solutions
Izu Okaka Anaedo Ltd

Tochukwu express

Nnewi Another great town in Anambra state

Hotels are taking over the city of Owerri o!

How is this a problem? It's a good development since people with disposable income patronize hotels for accommodation and meetings!! You must do away with Naija mentality that hotel business is evil.