Problems Facing Local Engeering Companies in
Nigeria by Kingsley Akarowhe in Open Access Biostatistics & Bioinformatics:
Crimson Publishers- Open Access Biostatistics & Bioinformatics journals
The engineering sector in any nation has a prior
role to play in the attainment of nations’ goals and objectives. These
objectives and goals ranges from economic, social and political domain. This
makes it quite relevant because it also cut across all domain of human endeavour. Hence engineering companies plays similar roles. In recent time in
the developing countries of the world such as Nigeria, the objective and goals
has not been achieved due to bed eviling problems facing local engineering
companies. It is in consonance with this fact that, this paper intends to
investigate problems facing local engineering companies-low patronage and
untimely payment of benefits, high tax burden, lack adequate
equipments/machines, environmental and cultural induced challenges, political
factor, and lack of competencies in service delivery and
way-forward-collaboration with in the union, review of state of industry,
awareness programmes, review of contractual framework. It was concluded that if
the possible way-forward as enunciated by the researcher is implemented the
problems facing local engineering companies will be surmounted.