NIGERIA / WEST AFRICA

Ashok Leyland, the flagship of the Hinduja Group, along with Stallion Motors, its exclusive distributor in Nigeria for over a decade, Friday in Lagos, launched Phoenix, the successful light commercial vehicle into the Nigerian market. Stallion is not only a household name in Nigeria as it controls 45 percent of ...

(By Jean Marc Gogbeu)    The Nestlé Group, which intends to maintain its leadership and highlight women, has gone well beyond good intentions by choosing to put women in charge of some of its industrial units in Africa Nestlé has made the promotion of equity one of the pillars of ...

(By Musa Ilallah)     The year 2023 kicked off on a significant note for the Nigerian Navy, with the hosting by Nigeria of Exercise Obangame Express 2023, the largest multinational maritime exercise in Western and Central Africa, in collaboration with U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Naval Forces Europe and ...

ABC Transport has been providing safe, comfortable, and reliable transportation and logistic services to millions of Nigerians and beyond in the past three decades ABC Transport commenced operation in Nigeria on the 13th of February 1993.  With just two buses, on Diamond Bank (now Access Bank) loan. Today, ABC Transport ...

Offers Training to Military Engineers on Usage, Maintenance. Stallion Motors has delivered 700 locally-produced Ashok Leyland Troops Carrying Vehicles to the Nigerian Armed Forces. The vehicles, which were commissioned virtually on Friday by President Muhammadu Buhari, were procured by the Nigerian military following the Executive Order Number 5  which mandated ...

Kia Corporation Thursday unveiled a set of video clips to tease its highly anticipated Kia EV9, the brand’s dedicated battery electric SUV. The Kia EV9 flagship SUV is set to accelerate the company’s transformation into a sustainable mobility solutions provider in the era of electrification.   The Kia EV9 teaser video, ...

Nigeria’s 2023 general elections were “largely peaceful” despite administrative and logistical hurdles at many polling units, according to an independent group of Commonwealth observers. The Chairperson of the Commonwealth Observer Group, former President of South Africa, H.E. Thabo Mbeki, delivered his team’s preliminary assessment of the electoral process at a ...

Emerges As Truck and Plant of the Year JAC Motors, a Chinese truck manufacturer, is stepping up its game and has continued to improve on the quality of its truck models to competes favourably with popular European brands. The  Group Executive Director, Lanre Shittu Motors, Taiwo Shittu, disclosed this, saying some automakers ...

Road accidents have been on the increase in Nigeria in the last six years, figures from the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and international groups such as the World Bank and World Health Organisation (WHO) have shown. This is coming despite efforts by government interventionist agencies including the FRSC set ...

With national, state, or parliamentary elections scheduled to take place in 17 African countries throughout 2023, it will be a busy year for African politics. Currently, all eyes are on Nigeria’s presidential elections, occurring February 25, and state elections on March 11, as they will set the stage for analysis ...