TWO MAJOR FACTORS THAT HAS MADE RWANDA THE GIANT OF AFRICA

Volkswagen opens Rwanda's first car plant: Rwanda’s first domestically built car rolled off the assembly line at Volkswagen’s  new factory in Kigali on Wednesday as Europe’s biggest carmaker taps into demand for ride-sharing to expand in the region. Despite low levels of car ownership in Rwanda, Volkswagen hopes to both sell vehicles and use them in an Uber-like car-sharing system that will allow people to book rides using their smartphones. Some will also be sold into neighboring nations.

Rwanda to open its first smartphone factory: The Minister for ICT and Innovation stated, “Smartphones are important ICT tools since there are some digital services that only require smartphones such as access to land services among others. There is also need to ensure affordability of smartphones whose high cost prevents citizens from benefiting from various digital services. . We hope that the plant to locally produce smartphones will boost access and also economy,”

My opinion – Here we are in Nigeria with no hope for producing anything. How can production work, when electricity is the major factor for growth to Nigeria and Nigerians?

Electricity has made investors not even look towards us for any reason, even the few ones who tried to establish something in Nigeria have all moved out (Michelin, Dunlop etc.)

Reading the news sometimes in 2018 and I saw where Federal Government of Nigeria was shamelessly headlining s news with the caption “NIGERIA WILL START PRODUCING PENCIL IN 2020”

You want to tell me we are now producing our own rice. Really? When we were importing the same rice we paid N9,000 for a bag and FG stopped importation of rice because they wanted to start promoting our own grown rice which goes for N17,000 (almost twice the price of what it used to be).

Should we talk about how much frozen food now cost or is it how much custom now charge to clear goods from the sea port?

We used to be called the giant of Africa but not anymore as a lot more African countries are doing far better than us, with the way the country is moving. We will never get to the point where other smaller African countries can look up to us for anything.

Also with time getting visas to some of these African countries will be super difficult for Nigerian passport holders.

It’s been confirmed that international investors one way or the other helps to grow the economy of every country but are certainly not ready to welcome any investor(s).

NB – Me listening to this song in my head by Cassie ft Dan – 🎼We gat a long way to go🎼