Innocent Chukwuma turned a Nnewi market stall into Nigeria's only indigenous carmaker
Rejected by engineering school, he bet that Nigeria could build the cars it kept importing. Decades later, Innoson is the proof of that wager.
African industrialists
Meet Attia Nasreddin, the Eritrean-born chairman who runs Nigeria's NASCO Group from Jos
Attia Nasreddin chairs NASCO Group, the Jos-based Nigerian conglomerate his father founded in 1963 with sub-Saharan Africa's first jute bag factory.