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Nominations open for Nigeria’s Car-of-the-Year

Activities have commenced for the 2021 automotive awards, the bespoke industry award recognising the best and strongest automobiles in the outgoing year. At the awards…

Activities have commenced for the 2021 automotive awards, the bespoke industry award recognising the best and strongest automobiles in the outgoing year.

At the awards night, which is the brainchild of the Nigerian Auto Journalists Association (NAJA), industry experts are expected to award automotive brands through a scoring system that will test vehicles’ strengths, weaknesses and appeal.

The chairman, 2021 NAJA Awards Planning Committee, Theodore Opara, said the 2021 edition which is scheduled for December 11, at Eko Hotels and Towers, Victoria, hinted that highly respected individuals in motoring journalism, have drawn out all the categories in the awards, and presently compiling nominations in the various categories.

“Industry experts are expected to decide the nominees through a scoring system that will test vehicles’ strength, weaknesses and popularity against other contenders in the same category,” he said.

Mr. Opara added that members of the committee would pay close attention to worldwide competition trends and take advice from industry experts in arriving at nominations and decoding eventual winners.

He said, “In this year’s edition, there will also be a special honour for Chief Michael Ade-Ojo, Chairman of Toyota Nigeria Ltd and some other industry giants for their immense contributions to the development of Nigeria’s auto industry.”

He also said like previous editions, the high points of the 2021 awards ceremony would be the car-of-the-year category.

“Other segments of awards are luxury car of the year, heavy-duty truck of the year, auto plant of the year, CEO of the year, the auto personality of the year, CSR company of the year, pick-up of the year, showroom of the year and many others,” he added.

Chairman of NAJA, Mike Ochonma, said the 2021 edition would provide an avenue to recognise corporate stakeholder organisations and other automotive products and ancillary products such as tyre brands and individuals that had made exceptional contributions to the country’s auto industry within the year.

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