NADDC inaugurates 1st Nigeria Electric Vehicle Charging Station in Sokoto
The Nigeria Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) on Thursday inaugurated the first Electric Vehicle Charging Station in Nigeria, in Sokoto State. NADDC noted that the pilot project, inaugurated at the Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto (UDUS), was also in collaboration with the institution. https://i1.wp.com/www.vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FGY.jpg?w=768&ssl=1 In his address, Director-General of NADDC, Mr Jelani Aliyu, said that the project was part of the Federal Government’s commitment to the best Nigeria desired by all.
“This is the beginning of a new era for Nigeria as it marks the realisation of the government’s desire to build sustainable technology in the country. “Moreover, our vision and mission at NADDC are not just to enable the production of vehicles in Nigeria but also to produce the best and most advanced technology vehicles in the country. “Today, we have inaugurated the first 100 per cent solar energy powered charging station in Nigeria. “The reason for choosing Sokoto for the pilot project is in consideration of the harsh weather. “However, such weather has become a blessing for us as we can extract and power our homes, offices and even for industrial consumption,” he said.
Aliyu further said that the NADDC was partnering with three universities in the country that included UDUS, the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), with the hope of advancing research in renewable energy.
“With the current development, Nigeria can power her economy exclusively with renewable energy and by the time that is achieved, the challenges of power will become history in the country,” he added. The D-G said that it was an opportunity for the institutions to utilise the very best in research to enable them to come up with more advanced technologies in the automotive industry. In his remarks, the Vice-Chancellor of UDUS, Prof. Lawal Bilbis, described the inauguration as a historic landmark for the institution, Sokoto state and Nigeria. Bilbis, represented by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Administration, Prof. Ibrahim Magawata, assured that the university would ensure more collaborative measures to enable NADDC to achieve the desired dreams.
"We are hoping that these collaborations will usher in favourable results to enable Nigerians, even in remote villages, to rely on the gift of nature for energy,” he said.
CobraAnambra: You talk about justice? Have you handed over to the police the hausa killer that your people hid in their camp? This is just intial gra gra. When hausas were flogged in Ife and some Yoruba were arrested, they were later released.
E don tey wey you don dey collect flogging from Yoruba.
olajizz01: You this Fulani terrorist no well at all,millions of your almajiris were in IDP in Cameroon, Chad,Niger rep.even in Nigeria. Your Terrorists brothers attacked the sparsely agrarian community near border,and you are chest beating,why can't those terrorists come to the populated area to do their terror,shasha will be a child play.
bloody coward.
My friend sit this one out.
You're all reaping all the disgusting, nauseating bigotry you've been sowing against the North.
CobraAnambra: I watched him crying on TV like a pregnant frog. He ran away after receiving home training. Look, we have your cane with us. All of you.
-lizard
Are there no Fulanis presently in your backyard flogging your spineless men while taking turns to thoroughly enjoy your women or does your imaginary cane only work online? What about your refugees presently languishing in poverty at Oduduwa IDP Camp as we speak? Generational cowards
Typical noisy, shameless, spineless, cowardly heads-man. I have your medicine.
Oshigun: This guy, you no dey shame? To think I used to have a modicum of respect for you same as I once believed in Buhari to the extent of actually campaigning for him and defending him as a worthy President.
You Northerners are all the same. Emptily arrogant, clannish and wicked people happy to support and blindly defend the unacceptable behaviour of your own towards others.
Even your username hints at your mentality of cheating the rest of Nigeria with retrogressive, nepotistic and blatantly biased practices all designed to favour undeserving, underperforming and under-qualified Northerners.
You have shown your feral and venal teeth. Things will never be the same again. Just bear that in mind.
I treat madness with madness. If you thought I'd keep quiet while you and your fellow bigots run rampage all over the forum with your fraudulent, malicious, deliberate, disparaging & derogatory narratives against the North then you're in for a rude awakening.
If not for sheer hypocrisy, have you ever called out any of the online urchins from the SW that have been running riot against the north with endless insults and disparaging remarks? Peddling narratives out of grand ignorance and often deliberate malice? Where was your voice? Oh Hausa Fulani are fair game that can be insulted and attacked endlessly without consequences? You must be out of your mind.
Now you're crying about disappointment as if I have not seen the several shocking, extremely bigoted anti - Hausa /Fulani posts you've dropped ever so shamelessly here? Several times I've had to recheck to see if it was the same cerebral oshigun that had turned into a rabid, bigoted anti-arewa activist. Indeed it will never be the same and re-alignments are already underway as you've probably noticed.
The last thing you should expect from this moniker (which was deliberately named to spite anti North elements like yourself) is for it to standby while southern bigots without home training run unchecked with their bigoted madness. I treat madness with madness.
CobraAnambra: Cry louder, head hunting almajiri. You can't flog a child and not expect him to cry. Your cane is still with us, if you keep behaving as animals, we keep flogging your bovine skulls. we have your cane number
-lizard
Our resident lizard is having nightmares of Fulani flogging in Yewa. That coupled with the pain of FFKs hunger-driven begging is just too much trauma I understand
Funny thing is you still couldn't hide your obsession with human skulls
[quote author=thebosstrevor1 post=99629214]These people are masters of propaganda so the truth must be continually hammered for record purposes and reference for generations to come.
Are there any lower animals than your skull hunting Yoruba Heads-men? This is what happens when a bloo.dy ritualist is handed an android phone.
N4.5 billion tears are much better than Oduduwa International IDP Camp tears anyday you will agree .
Igbohoe has been humbled by mere food strike so pack your tail between your legs and scram instead of trying to save face in my mentions. Try any nonsense next time and see if you will be this lucky again to escape without kinetic consequences.
CobraAnambra: Why the tears. You behaved as animals and you were treated as animals. Wipe your tears and go join your members by the roadside to eat your tomatoes
Yoruba1stson: We have told you guys to keep your fucking food in your cursed land that we don't need you any more
It is pure wickedness to be peddling this false narrative online while your people in the real world were lamenting just a few days of the blockade.
How about a true, factual perspective from a team of 7 professional, reputable southern journalists from an independent southern newspaper? Check out Ibadan in particular.
Blockade: Meat scarcity, high food prices persist in Lagos, Ibadan, others
By Oladeinde Olawoyin, Abdulkareem Mojeed and 5 Others
Prices of foodstuff and beef have risen in Lagos, Ibadan, Benin, Uyo, and other parts of Southern Nigeria in recent days, a PREMIUM TIMES’ survey has revealed.
The hike in prices comes against the backdrop of a blockade of southern Nigeria announced by the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) last week.
The union is demanding the protection of its members and payment of about N475 billion compensation for lives and property lost in the wake of the crises recorded across Nigeria in recent months.
PREMIUM TIMES’ investigation at foodstuff and commodity markets revealed that the action of the union has driven up prices of beef, foodstuff and vegetables, especially in states in the southern part of the country and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Lagos
At the popular Mile 12 market in Lagos, this newspaper observed Tuesday that meat sellers across the market were largely absent and there was scarcity of tomatoes, pepper and some other food items brought from the northern part of the country.
When PREMIUM TIMES’ reporter visited the market, the few available tomatoes traders were besieged by a crowd of desperate buyers haggling prices.
A big basket of tomatoes, which sold between N5, 000 to N6,000 before the food blockade, sold for as high as N35, 000 on Tuesday. Similarly, a bag of pepper was sold at an average price of N17, 000, from a relatively lower price of between N8, 000 and N10, 000 last week.
“This crate of tomatoes is N13, 000. We sold it for N2,500, even N2, 000 when there was plenty goods. See around, no tomatoes in the market,” a trader told our reporter, pointing at the crate of tomatoes.
Some other sellers sold crates of tomatoes between N11, 000 and N8, 500, depending on how fresh they looked.
“The price of pepper has even gone down today, as at yesterday (Monday), we sold a bag for N28, 000,” a trader said.
Checks by PREMIUM TIMES Tuesday revealed that (cow) butchers were largely absent from their stalls in the market. Traders in the market attributed their absence to the fact that cows are no longer being killed at abattoirs due to high prices.
PREMIUM TIMES also observed that onions, which sold between N11, 000 and N12, 000 per bag, now average between N20, 000 and N25, 000 per bag.
South-South
In Uyo, the capital of Akwa-Ibom state, PREMIUM TIMES gathered that scarcity of beef has become a source of concern for residents.
Mijin Yawa, chairman of meat sellers in one of the markets in the Akwa Ibom state capital, said they did not have enough cattle to slaughter.
“The situation is we don’t have what to use, when the raw material is not there, there is no way for you to produce. The raw material of meat is cow, and we don’t have it. This is as a result of the national strike by the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) that is on,” he said.
“So meat is very, very expensive now, not only meat, even rice, beans, and others are very expensive here.”
Mr Yawa said in markets where they usually slaughter up to 50 cattle daily in the past, they now struggle to kill 20 cows because of scarcity.
“We’re now taking from our reserves, so that people can access small meat. They’re now selling a pan weight at N1500 instead of N800,” he said.
Tirmidhi Alamu, who trades cow meat at New Benin market in Edo State, told our reporter on Tuesday that cow is very expensive in the market.
He stated that a small-sized cow they used to buy at N180,000 was sold to them at N350,000 on Tuesday morning in the market.
“We don’t even know what to do, and we have to sell,” he lamented.
“But meat is too expensive. We learned the northerners said they will no longer bring cattle for us anymore unless the federal government compensates them for their losses. The situation is tough here.”
Ibadan
In Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, prices of foodstuff and beef have also recorded a jump in the last few days.
Segun Akinlabi, a meat seller in Olodo market, explained that beef has been expensive because the northerners are not taking cows to the city again.
“This hike we experience from the last two weeks is worrisome,” he said.
“The meat you brought N1,000 last two weeks now cost up to N5,000. I bought the arm (of a cow) that I am currently selling today for N35,000 which ought not to be. If it were before, I should not have bought it for more than N25,000.”
Omodasola Yusuf, Iyalaje of Olodo market, said rice, beans, and other goods have been very difficult to purchase due to the blockade.
“Dry pepper that was sold for N700 five days ago is now N1,000,” she said.
“We urge the government to help us and ensure that there is unity in Nigeria so that everyone will not die of hunger.”
Biatu Adejuwon, Olodo market spokesperson, lamented the increase in the prices of foodstuff since the blockade was announced.
“I sell corn and I can tell you that things have been terrible,” the spokesperson said.
“It is not the same price we bought and sold goods last week that is obtainable this week. We sold a Congo of beans for N600 last week but it is now N750. Hausa people are not bringing goods and people now hike the little they have. We are tired already and hoping that God will save us from the hardship.
“Many of us borrowed money from microfinance to run our businesses but people are not buying because things are expensive. We hope the authorities can find lasting solutions to this.”
But they called off the strike on Wednesday following the intervention of the governor and a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode.
The compensation they received was just 10% of their demand, however it demonstrated the commitment to peace by all parties.
Indeed the northern food & cattle dealers showed great maturity and understanding for accepting the governments N4.5 billion naira offer, in light of the huge losses they've suffered in the hands of animalistic southern savages in recent months.
1. The main concern of the Northern traders was addressed. Commitments regarding their safety and free movement were extracted from the SW envoy and the Federal Government so their primary objective was achieved.
2. Their secondary request for compensation has also been considered and they will receive billions of Naira in compensation.
3. The North has demonstrated clearly that it holds the keys to the nations food security and is an important, strategic contributor to the nations well being & commonwealth, as was indicated by the widespread scarcity, price hikes and lamentations by consumers and marketers for the duration of the food blockade into the SW. The south also benefited by a renewed awareness of its dependence on the North for several food items and the need to become as self sufficient as soon as possible.
authority2006: Thanks man. Let them continue bragging after some influential people begged the food suppliers on their behalf.
Their ego is so bruised that they're desperately trying to save face by discrediting FFK who clearly stated those who he was representing and whose message he was conveying; same person they were hailing just days ago for responding defiantly to the North when the blockade was announced.
I find the professional report of 7 reputable, identifiable southern journalists from an independent southern newspaper much, much more authentic & reliable than your individual, skewed opinion. Thank you .
Zenithpeak: Trust those reports at your own peril....... A congo of beans was around#800 before the blockade but their report recorded an increase of #100.... from #600 to #700 which is absolute lie....
How would expect a corn seller at off-season to tell you accurate information for product that is unavailable due seasonal scarcity?
The hike that was reported in that piece of news in about general inflation accross all the geopolitical zones of the country.
Be not deceived my brother, that blockade was exercise in futility and if it achieve anything at all, it is exposition of the northern farmers to untold hardship and demoralization.
Next time they should stage their blockade at planting season when there's natural scarcity already.... But this one was ill times hence shooting themselves in the foot.
Blue3k: Yeah the strike was about gaining concessions. Why else would they engage in these actions. Since when was FFF a representative of the SW? The FG doing a pointless payout is an accomplishment but they payout all manner of degenerates so it's no surprise.
Are you relying on facts or just creating your own reality? Their strike demands were clearly outlined. If you call their demand for safety and free movement in the South a concession demand, then they surely got it based on their agreement with the government and Fani Kayode who conveyed "especially Igbohoe's" assurances.
This same FFK that just a few days ago was celebrated as an opinion leader when he initially retorted in defiance that the SW would retaliate instead of bending to the traders demands? This same FFK that stated clearly that he came as a representative of the SW and his reconciliation effort had the blessing of Igbohoe who the Yoruba has adopted as their defacto leader? The same FFK that was celebrated by Yorubas here and offline as Igbohoe's mouthpiece? Its been over 24 hours but have you heard Igbohoe deny or debunk FFKs claims and peace overtures?
Finally the country didn’t pay out degenerates. They paid compensation, and rightly so, to innocent food and agricultural traders union whose members have lost their lives and property to savage ethnic attacks by animals in the south and are threatening the food security of the southern part of the country as a consequence. Face reality.
Doesn't change the fact the market would have adjusted. You just pointed out prices increase when supply decreased. The embargo ended after a weak as predicted with the status quo unchanged.
The markets would have adjusted with supplies from where? Have the poor, tiny neighbouring countries you were planning to import from finished feeding themselves? You think those traders lamenting wouldn't have started sourcing from there? Lol. You think the Yoruba intelligentsia would have allowed FFK go and seek for reconciliation if they had any real alternatives? Prices increased as supply from the north stopped so what does that imply? Lol. Without the assurances from southern leaders as channeled through FFK which satisfied their demands alongside the compensation, the blockade would have lasted weeks or months which would have been utterly devastating for a south that was already lamenting in the real world after just a few days.
(a) Law abiding northerners have been given commitments from the South through its envoy FFK & "especially Igbohoe" that they will no longer be attacked in the South and are free to move as Nigerians (again have you heard Igbohoes denial?). (b) The cattle and food traders union got their compensation and can revive their businesses and continue supplies to the south. (c) The North inadvertently clearly demonstrated its critical role in the Nations food security.
The status quo has changed and very clearly too. Ask Igbohoe.
What would any right thinking, law abiding civilian be doing with an AK-47?
From the forests of Sambisa and Orlu, to our highways, to Amotekun, to Macban and everywhere in between anyone found wielding or illegally trafficking any high grade guns and ammunition should be shot on sight.
Zenithpeak: There are fresh tomatoes on the trays of the market women in Ibadan is a testimony that not only Northern farmers are bringing the products to southwest Nigeria.... We have some Egedes who are into the business of vegetables and peppers/tomatoes... I also saw some Hausa who against all odds smuggled their produce into Bodija market in Ibadan which means there's nothing like total scarcity of pepér, tomatoes and onions in Ibadan.
If it had lasted few months, it would have established the superiority of the north on food production in Nigeria. But now, it achieved.
Blue3k: I dont think a few months would've done anything but give the competition more time to flood the market with their goods. As your own examples show people defied the embargo because of their self interest profit seeking and local people would grow more of the goods. The food market works is perfect competition not a monopoly.
How about a true, factual perspective from a team of 7 professional, reputable southern journalists from an independent southern newspaper?
Blockade: Meat scarcity, high food prices persist in Lagos, Ibadan, others
By Oladeinde Olawoyin, Abdulkareem Mojeed and 5 Others
Prices of foodstuff and beef have risen in Lagos, Ibadan, Benin, Uyo, and other parts of Southern Nigeria in recent days, a PREMIUM TIMES’ survey has revealed.
The hike in prices comes against the backdrop of a blockade of southern Nigeria announced by the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) last week.
The union is demanding the protection of its members and payment of about N475 billion compensation for lives and property lost in the wake of the crises recorded across Nigeria in recent months.
PREMIUM TIMES’ investigation at foodstuff and commodity markets revealed that the action of the union has driven up prices of beef, foodstuff and vegetables, especially in states in the southern part of the country and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Lagos
At the popular Mile 12 market in Lagos, this newspaper observed Tuesday that meat sellers across the market were largely absent and there was scarcity of tomatoes, pepper and some other food items brought from the northern part of the country.
When PREMIUM TIMES’ reporter visited the market, the few available tomatoes traders were besieged by a crowd of desperate buyers haggling prices.
A big basket of tomatoes, which sold between N5, 000 to N6,000 before the food blockade, sold for as high as N35, 000 on Tuesday. Similarly, a bag of pepper was sold at an average price of N17, 000, from a relatively lower price of between N8, 000 and N10, 000 last week.
“This crate of tomatoes is N13, 000. We sold it for N2,500, even N2, 000 when there was plenty goods. See around, no tomatoes in the market,” a trader told our reporter, pointing at the crate of tomatoes.
Some other sellers sold crates of tomatoes between N11, 000 and N8, 500, depending on how fresh they looked.
“The price of pepper has even gone down today, as at yesterday (Monday), we sold a bag for N28, 000,” a trader said.
Checks by PREMIUM TIMES Tuesday revealed that (cow) butchers were largely absent from their stalls in the market. Traders in the market attributed their absence to the fact that cows are no longer being killed at abattoirs due to high prices.
PREMIUM TIMES also observed that onions, which sold between N11, 000 and N12, 000 per bag, now average between N20, 000 and N25, 000 per bag.
South-South
In Uyo, the capital of Akwa-Ibom state, PREMIUM TIMES gathered that scarcity of beef has become a source of concern for residents.
Mijin Yawa, chairman of meat sellers in one of the markets in the Akwa Ibom state capital, said they did not have enough cattle to slaughter.
“The situation is we don’t have what to use, when the raw material is not there, there is no way for you to produce. The raw material of meat is cow, and we don’t have it. This is as a result of the national strike by the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) that is on,” he said.
“So meat is very, very expensive now, not only meat, even rice, beans, and others are very expensive here.”
Mr Yawa said in markets where they usually slaughter up to 50 cattle daily in the past, they now struggle to kill 20 cows because of scarcity.
“We’re now taking from our reserves, so that people can access small meat. They’re now selling a pan weight at N1500 instead of N800,” he said.
Tirmidhi Alamu, who trades cow meat at New Benin market in Edo State, told our reporter on Tuesday that cow is very expensive in the market.
He stated that a small-sized cow they used to buy at N180,000 was sold to them at N350,000 on Tuesday morning in the market.
“We don’t even know what to do, and we have to sell,” he lamented.
“But meat is too expensive. We learned the northerners said they will no longer bring cattle for us anymore unless the federal government compensates them for their losses. The situation is tough here.”
Ibadan
In Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, prices of foodstuff and beef have also recorded a jump in the last few days.
Segun Akinlabi, a meat seller in Olodo market, explained that beef has been expensive because the northerners are not taking cows to the city again.
“This hike we experience from the last two weeks is worrisome,” he said.
“The meat you brought N1,000 last two weeks now cost up to N5,000. I bought the arm (of a cow) that I am currently selling today for N35,000 which ought not to be. If it were before, I should not have bought it for more than N25,000.”
Omodasola Yusuf, Iyalaje of Olodo market, said rice, beans, and other goods have been very difficult to purchase due to the blockade.
“Dry pepper that was sold for N700 five days ago is now N1,000,” she said.
“We urge the government to help us and ensure that there is unity in Nigeria so that everyone will not die of hunger.”
Biatu Adejuwon, Olodo market spokesperson, lamented the increase in the prices of foodstuff since the blockade was announced.
“I sell corn and I can tell you that things have been terrible,” the spokesperson said.
“It is not the same price we bought and sold goods last week that is obtainable this week. We sold a Congo of beans for N600 last week but it is now N750. Hausa people are not bringing goods and people now hike the little they have. We are tired already and hoping that God will save us from the hardship.
“Many of us borrowed money from microfinance to run our businesses but people are not buying because things are expensive. We hope the authorities can find lasting solutions to this.”
Blue3k: It was well played considering the FG had no reason to intervene. Violence and criminality is most expedient way to get stuff from the FG. The states rightly refused to give any concessions.
Was the strike ever about getting any concessions? (even though Igboho reversed his stance in his talks with FFK & Gov. Bello)
Items 1 & 2 listed above were their only objectives which were achieved, so talking about not getting "state concessions" just sounds like self consolation.
1. The main concern of the Northern traders was addressed. Commitments regarding their safety and free movement were extracted from the SW envoy and the Federal Government so their primary objective was achieved.
2. Their secondary request for compensation has also been considered and they will receive billions of Naira in compensation.
3. The North has demonstrated clearly that it holds the keys to the nations food security and is an important, strategic contributor to the nations well being & commonwealth, as was indicated by the widespread scarcity, price hikes and lamentations by consumers and marketers for the duration of the food blockade into the SW. The south also benefited by a renewed awareness of its dependence on the North for several food items and the need to become as self sufficient as soon as possible.
LegendHero: Any SW governor or leader that mediate into this is a fool.
LegendHero: What I don’t understand is who gave him the commitment from the South
He clearly said he had the mandate of Sunday Igbohoe, the newly minted defender of the South West.
“On behalf of the so many people in the South-West, especially Sunday Igboho (Yoruba activist), our commitment to you today is that people of the Hausa- Fulani extraction cannot and will not be attacked in the south.”
“I have also received major commitment from people from the South not to attack people of Hausa/Fulani and the traders in the South and that the criminals among them, irrespective of tribe and religion, should be handed over to law enforcement agents."
Very good.
3 Core Fruits of the Food Blockade.
1. The main concern of the Northern traders was addressed. Commitments regarding their safety and free movement were extracted from the SW envoy and the Federal Government so their primary objective was achieved.
2. Their secondary request for compensation has also been considered and they will receive billions of Naira in compensation.
3. The North has demonstrated clearly that it holds the keys to the nations food security and is an important, strategic contributor to the nations well being & commonwealth, as was indicated by the widespread scarcity, price hikes and lamentations by consumers and marketers for the duration of the food blockade into the SW. The south also benefited by a renewed awareness of its dependence on the North for several food items and the need to become as self sufficient as soon as possible. Cc: Blue3k
"If the north blocks food supplies to the south, the south will block the supply of oil, refined products and oil money to the north.
You touch me, I touch you!
You do me, I do you!
You Tarka me, I Daboh you!
It's called the law of reciprocity!
Never start a dance you can't finish!"
FFK 5 Days After The" Heavy" Blockade
“On behalf of the so many people in the South-West, especially Sunday Igboho (Yoruba activist), our commitment to you today is that people of the Hausa- Fulani extraction cannot and will not be attacked in the south.”
The warning strike was a show of force to demonstrate there are more effective and less kinetic methods to deal with the menace of stereotyping and attacking innocent Northerners & their belongings in the south asides violent reprisals.
As the union has successfully extracted commitments from Fani Kayode, Igbohoe and the SW they represent in the aftermath of the "heavy strike", to ensure the safety, security & free movement of Northerners in the south west, it is wise to give peace a chance and I commend the AUFCDN for their maturity and for accepting the overtures for peace and return to normalcy in the SW.
All is well that ends well
He said, “I have the commitment of the union, in order for us not to continue to have this hardship across the country, to lift the ban on food and livestock transportation to the South.
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