Tinubu okays deployment of electronic vehicles in North-East

President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday approved the deployment of electronic vehicles in the North-East region.
The Managing Director of the North-East Development Commission, Mohammed Alkali, made this known while briefing journalists shortly after a meeting with the President at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Mr Alkali said the commission would create a modular solar power unit across the region, which would be used to power the e-vehicles.
He also said the President granted the commission the approval to come up with the framework on how to deploy the e-vehicles in the region.
Mr Alkali said, “We are here today to brief Mr President on one critical activity he approved for us in the past two months. As you can recall, there was a directive by the President that parastatals should use compressed natural gas (CNG) or electric vehicles. We in the North-East Development Commission did a thorough analysis of our region because we cover six states, and we looked at the comparative advantages of both CNG and electronic vehicles. And after a thorough analysis, we came to the conclusion that for the North-East region, the CNG could work but electric vehicles would work better for many reasons.’’
He said the leadership of the commission presented to the President the kind of vehicles it would introduce in the North-East.
According to him, the vehicles are of three categories: the e-buses that can carry about 40 passengers at a given point in time, and a taxi for intrastate, which normally carries three people plus the driver.
He said, “And we also brought in a highly modified tricycle. Most of the tricycles we have in the North-East or elsewhere only carry three people plus the driver. But in our case we have modified it to carry eight people plus the driver, and it is fully covered and convenient. We also considered local content; the body was fabricated locally in the region.’’
(NAN)
We have recently deactivated our website's comment provider in favour of other channels of distribution and commentary. We encourage you to join the conversation on our stories via our Facebook, Twitter and other social media pages.
More from Peoples Gazette

Agriculture
FG tasks ECOWAS on leveraging financing strategies for agroecology
The federal government has urged stakeholders in the agriculture and finance sectors in the West Africa region to leverage financing strategies to enhance agroecology practices

Politics
Katsina youths pledge to deliver over 2 million votes to Atiku
“Katsina State is Atiku’s political base because it is his second home.”

Lagos
WaterAid inaugurates 20,000-litre solar-powered water facility in Lagos community
Ms Mere described the project as a milestone in expanding access to safe water.

States
Group seeks stronger laws against gender-based violence in Bauchi
The roundtable was organised under the #HerVoice Project supported by Urgent Action Fund–Africa (UAF-Africa).

Africa
NEPC seeks funding for ECOWAS trade promotion network
Ms Ayeni encouraged members of the organisation to continue to be more proactive.

States
IHRC seeks partnership with NDLEA to strengthen Kaduna anti-drug campaign
Mr Muhammad expressed optimism that the proposed partnership with IHRC-RFT would strengthen public awareness.

States
Delta, electricity firm seal power transmission deal
The commissioner described the collaboration as a major milestone for the state.

States
NEC commends Niger projects during inspection tour
The Commissioner for Finance, Lawal Maikano, commended the team for the visit.





