Niger amongst 12 states to get tricycle plant worth worth $3.2b

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From Yakubu Mustapha Minna

Niger state to benefit from a 3.2 billion dollars investment by the Buckstalker Engineering to establish tricycle producing plants across Nigeria

The Executive Chairman (EC), Buckstalker Engineering, Manasseh Joshua, stated this when he led some team of investors to Government House Minna, to intimate the Governor on their plans. 

Mr Joshua who explained that the tricycles which would be produced in partnership with a South Korean Company and in two types; trucks and passengers, added that 12 states were selected across the country based on their comparative advantages of Agricultural potentials.

He further explained that the plant would create direct and indirect job opportunities for about 5,000 people in the state and that the company will bring in  266 expatriates.

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In his remarks, Governor Abubakar Sani Bello applauded the effort of the Company and told the investors of a designated place in Dikko that the state intends to make it an Industrial Estate for big factories to be established.

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