FG seeks local production of mobile phones

…Waves market incentives on Chinese OEMs
….Telcos, subscribers commend move
By Prince Osuagwu, Hitech Editor.
THE Federal government has waved a carrot stick on Chinese phone manufacturers and their Nigerian counterparts to consider establishing phone manufacturing plants in Nigeria in exchange of mouth watering business incentives.
The government said that tax waivers and other rare operating incentives will be all for grabs to phone manufacturing companies who will take up the challenge, before November this year.
Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC’s board of commissioners, Dr. Idris Olorunnimbe, threw the bait at the Digital Africa Summit Roundtable in Sh...