A training of some selected staff of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC)  from across the country on non-motorised transportation system, which started on Monday,  ends this Friday in Abuja. The training, which was declared opened by the Corps Marshal, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, at the FRSC National Headquarters,  Abuja, was ...

After two successful years with electric buses on route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden, the partners in the ElectriCity venture have decided to expand electric bus operations in the city. In June next year, two electrically powered high capacity buses will start operating on route 16. At the same time, plans ...

Kia Motors Corporation has expressed confidence in the Ethiopian economy, which recently overtook that of Kenya to emerge as the economic powerhouse of  East Africa. On Thursday, at a ceremony in the Lideta area of Addis Ababa, the nation’s capital,  the Korean carmaker opened a new community-run auto mechanic training ...

South Africa has opened its first Quick Lane Tyre & Auto Centre in Silverton, Pretoria, thus joining over 1, 018 Quick Lane Tyre and Auto Centres worldwide, and more than 18  other countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Ethiopia and Uganda. Quick Lane ...

A fresh market offensive that will target urban youths in Nigeria with specialised products is in the works at PAN, the Kaduna-based assemblers of Peugeot range of vehicles. AUTO REPORT AFRICA reliably gathered that the move is in line with one of the growth plans of the company to woo ...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC)  on Wednesday clarified its position on the re-introduction of psychiatric tests for some life-threatening traffic offences as from July 1, 2017, saying traffic offenders booked for the offences will have to bear the cost of the medical examinations to be conducted on them. The ...

Despite General Motors (GM)’s planned exit from the South African market, German car brand, Opel, on Wednesday unveiled its growth plan for the market, expressing total commitment to the country in which it has been operating for more than eight decades. At a media briefing in Johannesburg, Opel, which has ...

Kenyan oil marketing giant, Hass  Petroleum Group, has sold 40 percent of its stakes to Oman Trading International (OTI), a global trading company owned by the Government of Oman, according to a report by Fuel and Lube Asia. The move, according to F+L Asia , is to enable the Kenyan ...

…Invites Automotive Council boss to its assembly plant in Lagos The Stallion Group Nigeria said it would have not less than 30 percent local content in its buses and trucks with local components from plastics, rubber, fibre and petrochemicals if the local components makers were able to upscale the quality ...

PAN Nigeria Limited has called for what it described as “strict and rigorous” implementation of the Nigerian Automotive Industry Development Plan (NAIDP) even as it urged the Director General of National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Mr. Jelani Aliyu, to fast-track the pace of automotive industrial development, including local ...