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Electric Mobility Promoters Association of Nigeria - EMPAN EMPAN is a national advocacy and industry association advancing electric mobility, innovation, and sustainable transport in Nigeria.

EV myths, busted. 🔥⚡ Myth: 'EVs can't handle Nigerian roads.' Reality: Modern EVs are built for rougher conditions than...
09/10/2026

EV myths, busted. 🔥⚡ Myth: 'EVs can't handle Nigerian roads.' Reality: Modern EVs are built for rougher conditions than Lagos on a Monday. Myth: 'No light = no EV.' Reality: Solar home charging is working across Nigeria today. Myth: 'Batteries die in 2 years.' Reality: 8–10 years, and the tech is getting better every year. Ask more. Assume less. ⚡

300,000 units a year 🏭 Local assembly is the long game. 30% of locally produced vehicles electric by 2030.
07/10/2026

300,000 units a year 🏭 Local assembly is the long game. 30% of locally produced vehicles electric by 2030.

01/10/2026

Happy Independence Day, Nigeria 🇳🇬 66 years ago, we chose our future. Today, we choose it again — cleaner, smarter, electric. Every Nigerian generation inherits a country it then rebuilds. This one's rebuild has wheels, silence, and solar. God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria. ⚡💚🤍💚

Changing the fuel is not the same as using less energy.That was EMPAN's opening point yesterday in Abuja, where we moder...
30/09/2026

Changing the fuel is not the same as using less energy.

That was EMPAN's opening point yesterday in Abuja, where we moderated the panel "Scaling Energy Efficiency Across the Transport Sector" at the National Workshop on Energy Efficiency and Conservation, hosted by the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN) in collaboration with JICA.

A car stuck in traffic on CNG, or on electricity, is still a car stuck in traffic. What matters is how much energy it takes to move one person or one tonne of goods.

We were honoured to host:
🔹 Mr Jerome Atebe, NMDPRA
🔹 Prince Mustapha Audu, Electric Motor Vehicle Company (EMVC)
🔹 Mr Joshua Garba, GIZ
🔹 Engr. John Bature, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON)

Moderator: Rume Oshenye, EMPAN

We spoke about energy efficiency in transport across standards, policy, CNG and electric vehicles: how CNG infrastructure is licensed and inspected, vehicle and fuel-economy standards, the running cost of EVs against petrol and CNG, and charging where the grid is weak.

Our takeaway: Nigeria is switching fuels quickly, but we are not yet measuring what each switch saves.

One question we ran out of time to ask, so we are asking it here: which fleet will Nigeria measure first, before and after, and who will publish the results?

Thank you to ECN, JICA and our panellists.

Today our President speaks on road safety at the 2026 Africa E-Mobility Week and Forum in Cape Town.It is the most visib...
28/09/2026

Today our President speaks on road safety at the 2026 Africa E-Mobility Week and Forum in Cape Town.

It is the most visible thing EMPAN has done this month. It is probably not the most consequential.

Most of September went on work that does not photograph well.

📐 Two days in Abuja with COREN and the Nigerian Energy Support Programme, revalidating Nigeria's Renewable Energy Competency Standards. COREN now holds the designation of National Certification Body for Skills in Clean Energy.

What gets agreed in that room decides whether a technician certified in Lagos can be relied on at a site in Kano. Nobody photographs a competency framework, but a certificate that means nothing is worse than no certificate at all.

Training rolls out in Abuja and Lagos shortly.

🎓 We were also at the closeout ceremony for the NESP Technical Internship Programme (TIP), implemented with the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Associations Alliance (REEEA-A), where EMPAN served as a host organisation.

We were fortunate to host David Emiola and Rebecca Kehinde. David supported our President across engagements including the UK PACT workshop and our meetings with the Rural Electrification Agency. Rebecca moderated our September webinar. Both did real work here, and we are proud of their journey.

Standards decide what a qualification is worth. Placements decide who gets the chance to earn one. Both matter, and the second one is where a sector either opens up or stays closed.

🌍 Yesterday our President signed the MoU establishing the Coalition of African E-Mobility Associations on behalf of EMPAN, supporting the Continental Framework on Electric Mobility in Africa.

Nigeria will not solve battery standards or charging interoperability alone. Nor should it try to.

⚡ We attended the REA's launch of the Renewable Asset Management Company (RAMCO), set up with the Ministry of Finance Incorporated and Infrastructure Corporation of Nigeria to keep renewable assets already deployed across the country productive.

We also met Dr. Abba Aliyu, Managing Director of the REA, about productive use of energy. Those are two halves of the same conversation. There are mini-grids generating power nobody uses, while transport operators nearby pay for fuel.

🎙️ Our 17 September webinar asked where Nigeria's EVs are going to charge. Full communiqué available.

🎂 We marked our President's birthday, which fell on World EV Day.

October is about making September count.

Nigeria's fastest route to electric mobility is the commercial fleet. 🚐 Buses, logistics vans, keke and okada share wha...
23/09/2026

Nigeria's fastest route to electric mobility is the commercial fleet.

🚐 Buses, logistics vans, keke and okada share what makes electrification work:

🔁 High daily utilisation — savings compound faster
📍 Predictable routes — charging can be planned
🏢 Depot charging — one site serves many vehicles
💰 Operators buy on economics, not sentiment

Fleets also make ideal anchor loads for solar mini-grids — predictable demand, better utilisation, expanded rural charging.

Real Stories Nigeria 🇳🇬⚡ Meet Blessing — fleet manager at an Abuja logistics firm. 4 electric vans, 18 months on the ro...
18/09/2026

Real Stories Nigeria 🇳🇬⚡ Meet Blessing — fleet manager at an Abuja logistics firm. 4 electric vans, 18 months on the road. 'At first people laughed. Now I'm the one the other companies call.'

Today those 4 vans cover 2,400km/week.
Fuel bill: down 40%. Breakdowns: near zero.
This is what electric Nigeria looks like in practice.

17/09/2026

Fifteen minutes.

If you have been meaning to ask someone why Nigeria's charging network is not growing faster, this is the room.

https://zurl.co/A6315

17/09/2026

Ninety minutes. Four people who have had to make decisions about this with real money and real regulation on the line.

Today at 3:00pm WAT: what it takes to finance and govern EV charging infrastructure in Nigeria.

https://zurl.co/QL6rQ

Come with a question. The quiet webinars are the wasted ones.

16/09/2026

Tomorrow we find out whether anyone has a real answer to this.

Nigeria has removed the duty on electric vehicles. It has not solved the charging question, and the two problems are not the same size.

Unlocking Investment and Policy Support for EV Charging Infrastructure in Nigeria

Prof. Theophilus Akinfenwa Fashanu, Chair of the SON National Technical Committee for Electric Mobility Standards. Omosola Adedeji Temitope, Head of Infrastructure, Operations and EV Maintenance at ZOOME Ecosystems. Hosted by Engr. Dapo Adesina. Moderated by Obiora Okafor.

Thursday 17 September, 3:00pm to 4:30pm WAT, Zoom.

Registration is still open: https://zurl.co/leLeh

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