citizenisb:

http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/fg-raises-tariff-on-imported-cars/

stebell: @ OP, yu caption dis story as wicked. I wanna ask yu aint yu tired of using 2nd hand goods like shoes, clothes, cars etc. I wanna believe yu still use 2nd hand electronics.
Think new and be renewed.
Wat de govt has done is jus to encourage our economy.

stebell: @ OP, yu caption dis story as wicked. I wanna ask yu aint yu tired of using 2nd hand goods like shoes, clothes, cars etc. I wanna believe yu still use 2nd hand electronics.
Think new and be renewed.
Wat de govt has done is jus to encourage our economy.

oweniwe: you are talking and reasoning like this because you are a consumer of goods and services, not a producer or manufacturer or employer of labor. . If you are a producer. . . Of lets say steel rods. . . You want to employ more people and add value to your country. . . You will not be reasoning that way. . .

God will bless you. . That one day. . You will be buoyant enough to set up a farm, manufacturing company or service providing company. . Ordinary torch light mobile phone, we don't produce in nigeria. . God will bless you to establish a phone manufacturing company in nigeria. . . Wen you see the way massive importation of low end phones that you can comfortably produce wit the right support and policies, that will help you expand and employ more jobless graduates. . . You won't be thinking the way you are thinking

earthrealm: clowns!!!!.....such clueless reasoning and mentality...fix power, fix the roads b4 u start talking trash about tokunboh cars....is it by force?...which manufacturing companies are u encouraging?..Michelin and co ant hundreds of other companies hv all left Nigeria for Ghana and other west African countries cos of lack of pwer supply and high cost of doing biz in Nigeria...........retardiins!!!


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ikaleguy:

Nigerians are no fools.they patronize locally made goods at the right price and quality

iamswizz: No electricity
No security
No good roads

And the government are concerned about tokunbo cars?




But still, Gej till 2019

edozie04:
Oluwa scata ur mouth,u must be a devil sent 4rm d pits of hell

texazzpete: Well, here's the ONLY consumer vehicle Innoson currently makes



No sedans, only a 'luxury SUV' that is probably well out of the reach of most Nigerians. No regard on it the typical hardworking Nigerian would even LIKE this vehicle.

99.9% of their vehicles are buses. Did the FG think this through at all?!

I'll go with the theory that this was to appease their buddies at Coscharis et al. Make it unattractive for the common man to patronize tokunbo so more people are driven to buy the new vehicles at their inflated pricing.

tomakint:
Trust me the FG is prepared for adequate funding of local producers especially through the Automotive Industrial Policy Development Plan!

V/Kasparov:
Motorcycles (used and unused) are banned in most States in the north for security reasons. This forced the common man to fall back on tokunbo vehicles as a last resort. I feel it is unfair for the Govenment to now make them less afordable especially since the local car manufacturing industry is not really functioning. Besides, how many people can aford these brand new locally made cars? Well, I guess the only option now left for the masses is to start pushing donkey carts.

ose_o: While unpopular I am with the government on this one, they are not stopping you from bringing in the tokumbo cars, but you will have to pay to get them.

When government did the same thing with clothes a few years ago people screamed, yet look at that sector now in Nigeria it's booming.

Until the government made a move like this the automotive industry would never improve. The next step is for the government to stop using foreign produced cars, thereby directly funding the local industry. Can you imagine the sales of innoson if all the arms of government used only their cars?

And like all things in life, you get better with experience, innoson is a relatively new company, yet their new buses are quite good, so imagine where they can/will be in 10 years.

ayusco85: This is too early joor. wait o before u increase the tariff. Peoples cars are already on the high sea about to enter the country. Better implement it next year from january 1st.

GOFON: @ FG,

Get Toyota to build a car manufacturing plant in Nigeria. Let's see this locally made cars for at least 2 years before implementing this money-making policy.