… assembly plants will provide skills dev, enterprise for youths – Alkali
The Federal Government, through the Northeast Development Commission (NEDC), has announced plans to roll out 10,000 electric vehicles and charging stations across the region’s states to create employment opportunities for young people, encourage technology transfer, and strengthen the emerging electric mobility ecosystem.
Abubakar Momoh, the Minister of Regional Development, responding to journalists shortly after the project inspection in Maiduguri, said when completed, the electric vehicles comprising buses, tricycles and taxis with charging infrastructure
will serve people in rural and urban communities across the region.
He stressed that he inspected the progress of the ongoing assembly of 10, 000 electric vehicles meant for distribution to the six Northeast states in Maiduguri, the Borno
