As part of efforts to draw attention to the economic opportunities in some of the country’s industrial clusters, as well as promote the ‘Made in Nigeria’ mindset, a group of experts and industrialists are putting together an investment summit for Nnewi manufacturing hub. The investment summit, which holds on February 6 and 7 in Nnewi,...
The small Nigerian town of Nnewi has more naira billionaires per capita than anywhere else in the country. Shortly before Nigeria’s independence in 1960, Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, reportedly Nigeria’s first black billionaire, and founding president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. The royal honor came after he helped the British...
Dr Cletus M Ibeto CON commissions the rotary furnace for the largest lead recycling plant in Africa built by Union Autoparts Manufacturing Co Ltd Nnewi -a pioneer member company of The Ibeto Group.
The scale of intense commercial activity in Nnewi – a community comprising three local government areas – in Anambra State point to the apparent prosperity per capita of its citizens. The town is a mini version of Lagos and riddled with bubbling enterprises. Virtually every person is either buying or selling or producing something. Without...
Nnewi is unique in Nigeria because the businessmen and women of this community have gone beyond the song and dance of platitudes about diversification and industrialization to do the deed in reality.
TABLE OF MEMBERS OF THE MANUFACTURING GROUP OF THE NNEWI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INDUSTRY MINES AND AGRICULTURE AND THEIR PRESENT STATUS.
Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company (IVM) is the premiere private indigenous vehicle manufacturing company in Nigeria. Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company (IVM) was commissioned by His Excellency, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan at Nnewi.
For this past fifty years, Nnewi has embarked on various types of community development programs which include building primary schools, post-primary schools, hospitals, rural electrification and water supply projects.
The youngest among six children, Chief (Dr) Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma (OFR), was born into the family of Mr & Mrs Chukwuma Mojekwu of Uru-Umudim, Nnewi, in Anambra State, without the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth. But, what he lacked in the affluent parental background, he made up for with intelligence, hard-work, discipline and business...
Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company Limited founded by Nigerian industrialist, Chief Innocent Chukwuma, unveiled its new cars – IVM Umu, IVM Umu and IVM Uzo- manufactured at the company’s Nnewi plant in Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria.
