Nigeria chivital juice company transformed to car production by 14 year old boy.

The future of Automobile Industries in Africa and Generation to come.

For a very long time in the history of Nigeria, we have invested and basically focused on music industries as the only avenue to groom and discover lasting and outstanding talents.

Talking about automobile  in Africa and Nigeria precisely a lot of us do not really have that flair or interest in grooming and utilizing the talented Nigerians in this field.  

While Nigeria is striving to own and invent in an automobile industry like INNOSON who is the only Nigeria indigenous automobile manufacturing plant in Nigeria. Which has enabled other foreign automobile companies to outsource their production plants to Nigeria, hence Nissan, Toyota, Mercedes and others are assembling some range of their
vehicles in Nigeria.

However, I was fortunate  to meet this public school student, a junior secondary school in Isolo lagos, Nigeria . Although I learnt he is learning mechanic but his ability to utilize Chi chi vita csrton to design a reversible and battery usage car is an eye catching invention.

Moreover it not actually surprising but it's important to know that. Africans can not just keep relying and utilizing invention they can manufactured. Although I know of a few Africa countries with strong involvement in automobile industries. 

Algeria is of one African leading development of the car industry sector which was an attempt to reduce the country’s soaring import bill.

Algeria imported 605,000 cars in 2012 for $7.3 billion.Yet,as the financial crisis bites in a country hard hit by oil price slump,authorities set up quotas for car importers leading to a drop in imports. Only 98,000 cars were imported in 2016 for a total cost of $1 billion.

The figures are but the tree that hides the forest. When considering that Algeria’s aim to develop a local car industry has turned into “disguised imports”. The car assembly plants in algeria have a low local sourcing rates with most parts imported from abroad as semi-knocked down kits, thus further aggravating the country’s import bill with only tires being made in Algeria. Locally produced parts made up in 2016, only 10 to 15% of cars made in Algeria. Going by my little findings on Nigeria and analysis on important of vehicles.

According to Nigerian Ports Statistics 2012 to 2017 report released by the National Bureau of Statistics ( NBS),the
vehicles came through Apapa , Tin Can, Onne , Calabar and Delta ports.  The report stated that vehicle importation into the country
was on downward spiral from 2013, even though the federal
government auto policy was introduced in 2014.

Nigeria former President Goodluck Jonathan had imposed 70 percent duty on importation of new vehicles and 35 per cent on used vehicles with the aim of boosting local production .

The tariff reduced the number of vehicles brought into the country but failed to boost local production , just as it fuelled smuggling from neighbouring Benin Republic and Togo .Also, the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in December 2016 placed ban on importation of vehicles
through the land borders , citing loss of revenue . In which the ban ,  was introduced to influence massive
importation of vehicles through the nation ’ s seaports , has
not also done enough to stop smuggling at porous land
borders of Seme and Idiroko .

For instance , 269 , 386 vehicles were imported in 2012, while
280 , 226 came into the country in 2013 and 247 , 932 in 2014 . Also, in 2015 , 131 , 994 vehicles were reportedly received at various terminals , 105 , 189 in 2016 and 181 , 404 in 2017.

Tin Can Island port , which has designated vehicle terminals ,
PTML and Five Star Terminals handled the highest number
of vehicles imported into the country .

For instance , 1 , 164 , 600 vehicles were imported through the
Tin - Can port in the year under review . 

Also the breakdown showed that in 2012, 251 , 322 vehicles were imported , while 265 , 209 in 2013 and 237 , 904 came into the port in 2014 . It showed further that in 2015, 124 , 841 vehicles were received at various terminal at Tin- Can port , 104 , 571 in 2016 and 180 , 753 in 2017.

The Tin - Can Port was followed by the Apapa port ,which received 48 , 937 vehicles in the year under review . The Apapa port received 17 , 121 , being the highest number of vehicles into the country in 2012 , followed by 14 , 397 in 2013 and 9 , 611 in 2014.

Although the port doesn ’ thave a designated vehicle terminal, the port recorded 6 , 955 in 2015 and paltry 346 and 507 in 2016 and 2017 respectively. 

The Eastern port , which
was known for receiving oil and gas cargoes, also received a paltry 2 , 594 in six years . Onne port received the highest in the eastern port from 285 in 2012 to 260 in 2013 and 106 in 2014, even as 196 vehicles were received in 2015, 272 in 2016 and 3 in 2017.

Delta port received 2 vehicles in 2015 and additional 658 in
2012, 360 in 2013 and 311 in 2014 . The Rivers Port received
only 141 vehicles in 2017 , while Calabar port has received no
vehicle in the last six years .

However, with all of this analysis one can see there is urgent need to shift from just banning the important of car to importation of raw materials to become a manufacturer of vehicle.