The federal government’s recent push to curb tyre imports and spur local manufacturing could falter due to the same structural issues that drove away major players like Michelin and Dunlop years ago.
The challenges then and now are familiar – inadequate infrastructure, high energy costs, infl
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Juliet Onyema
Juliet Onyema is a transport journalist who reports on Nigeria’s transport and automobile industry. She covers emerging Electric Vehicles (EVs), ranging from adoption to usage, automobile firms and transport policies which affect them, and also recurring trends affecting commuters’ mobility interstate and intrastate.
