In Nigeria, the automotive industry started from local assembly by private companies in the 1960s, and then the federal government initiated the assembly of passenger cars and minibuses of European companies. In the 1980s, in addition to the European companies, domestic companies also began to assemble trucks and buses. However, the automotive industry did not grow as they expected due to the lack of a policy for fostering the automotive industry and the drop in automobile demand due to the economic conditions of the 1980s and 1990s. As a result, all state factories were privatized in 2007. As a part of the manufacturing industry development, the federal government introduced a new policy for national automotive industry in 2013, and was aiming for the development of the automotive industry again. Based on a request from the Federal Government of Nigeria, a survey was conducted for proposing our cooperation policy and concrete plan for countermeasures after organizing the issues surrounding the development of automotive industry in Nigeria.