Nigeria Will Start Manufacturing Vehicle Spare Parts- NADDC

The National Automotive Design and Development Council ( NADDC ) announced it has put in place the structures required to start production of vehicle spare parts locally.

This is to help Nigeria’s reliance on importation, which currently costs the country over $1 billion annually.

The Director General of NADDC, Joseph Osanipin, said this during a two-week automotive engineering and software design training held in Abuja.

The training was organized in partnership with Midas IT Co., a South Korea company, focusing on Midas NFX software, a platform for advanced design and analysis.

Addressing the participants, the Director General of NADDC said: “ We are working to achieve a level whereby we can go back to assembling vehicles that have up to 40% locally manufactured components.

We have vehicle assemblies in Nigeria but the assembling that is going on is not adding much value to the economy.”

He further stated that, “Vehicles that have been assembled come in completely built, and they just remove the tyres, remove the exhaust system, remove the engine, ship them, and come and assemble them here.

But we want to transform from that to a level where these vehicles come in unpainted, the welding is done here, some components parts are produced here and the assembly will add more value, and employ more people. We have over 11 million vehicles on our Nigerian roads.

“Of the over 3,000 parts in a vehicle, if we can leverage on producing just 10 that we can beat our chest, that in the whole world, Nigeria produces these 10 components and they are best, the market is going to be huge. Our economy will change”

NADDC believes that manufacturing spare parts locally will greatly help in growing Nigeria’s economy.

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