• Maiduguri plant set for Tinubu’s inauguration
Michael Olugbode in Abuja
The federal government is set to launch a major electric mobility programme in the North-east, with an assembly plant in Maiduguri, Borno State, preparing to roll out 10,000 electric vehicles and tricycles in an initiative projected to generate employment for up to 100,000 people during the assembly process.
The Minister for Regional Development, Abubakar Momoh, disclosed this yesterday after inspecting the electric vehicle assembly facility being managed by the North-East Development Commission (NEDC) ahead of its planned inauguration by President Bola Tinubu.
Momoh said the project had moved substantially beyond the planning stage, with nearly all the targeted vehicles already at the facility and assembly operations underway.
