President Bola Tinubu has disclosed that Nigeria is taking significant step towards a sustainable and eco-friendly future by pioneering initiative to deploy a fleet of one hundred electric buses.
The President has also expressed his administration’s commitment to end gas-flaring in the country following the global push to halt methane emission.
President Tinubu spoke on Saturday at a high-level meeting with stakeholders and investors on the Nigeria Carbon Market and Electric Buses Rollout Programme in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on the margins of the COP28 climate summit.
He explained that the strategic initiative is aimed at significantly reducing Nigeria’s carbon footprint and modernising the country’s transportation systems as part of a larger effort to position Nigeria and Africa as the pioneering frontier of green manufacturing and industrialisation with a focus on natural gas as a transition fuel alongside other renewable energy sources.
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