Renault said it is boosting the 70th Cannes Film Festival which opened in France on Wednesday with a fleet of 330 vehicles. The French auto giant has been an official partner of the Cannes Film Festival since 1983, an “alliance” symbolising a historic link with the cinema that dates ...

Dubai is looking forward  to hosting more than 1,000 transportation leaders who will converge on the city from October 29-31, 2017 for a forward-looking and business-friendly International Road Federation (IRF) Middle East & North Africa Regional Congress & Exhibition, themed “Mobility Solutions for the 21st Century”, a statement issued by ...

Beauty meets luxury for three days at the Mercedes-Benz Centre Lagos, starting this Wednesday. The CEO of World PR Media Limited,  Tayo Afolabi, said the decision of her organisation to partner Mercedes-Benz for the annual Mercedes-Benz World PR Beauty Business Week was informed by the desire to explore the inherent ...

The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, Tuesday, confirmed that he has asked Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIOs)  to stay off the roads in the state permanently thus putting paid to speculations and controversy surrounding the absence of the VIOs from the roads in recent time. The governor also urged the ...

There is no doubt that the Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, is really serious about changing the face of public infrastructure in the state. On Tuesday,  the governor inaugurated the pedestrian bridges, lay-bys and slip road at Ojodu Berger along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, saying his administration at inception, identified ...

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) would raise N4.3 billion to reconstruct access roads around Apapa Port as port operators withdrew services over poor infrastructure. The Managing Director of NPA, Ms Hadiza Usman, told a stakeholders’ meeting in Lagos on Monday that NPA would provide N1.8 billion while Dangote Group and ...

Ford Motor Company is reportedly planning to cut about 10 percent of its global workforce in order to help increase its stock price, sources told The Wall Street Journal. The paper reported on Monday that the company is expected to outline its plan as early as this week. The move ...

Lagos State Governor, Akinwumi Ambode, Monday, on behalf of the Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF) presented 20 brand new operational vehicles with modern communication gadgets to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the State Police Command. Executive Secretary of LSSTF, Dr Abdulrazaq Balogun, in his remarks, said the donation ...

FIAT is back in Nigeria and this is official. Weststar Associates Limited confirmed this, Monday evening, in a statement issued in Lagos thus affirming Auto Report Africa’s earlier story on the arrival of the Italian auto brand. “It is with great excitement that Weststar Associates Limited, (Authorised General Distributors of ...

Weststar Associates Nigeria has finally brought the Fiat brand back to Nigeria. Our reporter had a sneak peek of three brand new units of Fiat Tipo 1.6 litre engine at the premises of the company in Lekki, Lagos last week. This came amid plans by the auto dealership to announce ...