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Damilola Ogunbiyi, United Nations (UN) special representative for sustainable energy, has highlighted plans for the deployment of e-mobility in the north-east.

According to an X post by Segun Dada, special assistant to the president on social media, on Wednesday, Ogunbiyi met with President Bola Tinubu at the State House in Abuja to present a document on e-mobility.

Described as the mobility of the future, electric mobility or e-mobility refers to road vehicles powered by an electric motor and charged with electricity.

E-mobility offers options for both short trips (bicycles, scooters, and electric motorcycles) as well as long trips (electric public transport vehicles) — to provide green transportation alternatives in the post-subsidy regime.

As part of efforts to cushion the effects of surging inflation, stakeholders and energy experts have called for more public awareness of the benefits of electric mobility.

At the COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Tinubu announced plans to deploy 100 electric buses for carbon reduction and modernisation of the transportation system in Nigeria.

He said the initiative is part of the efforts to position “Nigeria and Africa as the pioneering frontier of green manufacturing and industrialisation”.

The president said the Nigeria carbon market activation plan is expected to focus on natural gas as a transition fuel, together with other renewable energy sources.

A few months before Tinubu’s announcement, the Lagos government said it had taken delivery of the first set of electric buses for public transportation in the state.