How Ghana cornered VW plant with new procurement policy for assembled cars
Government of Ghana may have outsmarted Nigeria in the stiff contest for the mega West African vehicles assembly plant proposed by German auto group, Volkswagen. Investigations by Business Hilights showed that whereas Nigeria is among the four nations where the…
Can Volkswagen’s new W’African auto hub dream beat power challenges, others?
One of the apparent gains of the recent visit of German Chancellor, Angela Merkel to Nigeria is the Memorandum of Understanding to develop an automobile hub in Nigeria she sealed with the federal government on behalf Volkswagen Group. Under the…
Visiting foreign auto-investors’ canvass African approach to local production
A delegation of International Automotive Investors comprising of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and other stakeholders, has made case for a strategic African approach to growing local car manufacturing. Leader of the delegation, Mr. Thomas Schaefer, who addressed the Vice President…
