The National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) has announced a collaboration with a UAE-based company to build solar-powered tractors.

Mr Jelani Aliyu, the council's Director-General (DG), made the announcement immediately after speaking on a panel at the Electric Vehicle Innovation Summit (EVIS), which took place in Abu Dhabi, UAE, from May 23 to 25.

Researchers, engineers, government officials, and electric car firms and institutions from across the world attended the meeting. They investigated and debated e-technological, mobility's policy, and market successes and potentials.

The DG discussed current Nigerian successes in e-mobility, as well as the sector's significant potential in Nigeria and Africa. Aliyu also met with a number of businesspeople, including a delegation from a company that manufactures solar-powered farm tractors.

The conversation was on cooperating with the firm to produce tractors locally and making them available to Nigerian farmers.

This involvement was also intended to boost food production and sufficiency in the country at a low cost.

Aliyu later made a courtesy call on Mohammed Dansatta, Nigeria's Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates.

The Ambassador welcomed him for his visit and praised Aliyu's efforts to improve Nigeria's automotive sector, asking him to keep up the excellent job.