President Bola Tinubu, yesterday approved a request by the North East Development Commission, NEDC, to deploy the use of electric vehicles to ease transportation challenges in the zone
Chairman of the Commission, General Paul Tarfa, Retd, who made this after a brief meeting with the Vice-President Kashim Shettima, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said that electric tricycles are also expected to be deployed in the zone.
AljazirahNigeria reports that states in the North East are: Adamawa Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe.
NEDC is carrying out works that cuts across rebuilding of schools, roads, provision of healthcare, portable water among others following devastation caused by Boko Haram terrorists.