By Seyi Babalola
President Bola Tinubu returned to Abuja on Tuesday evening after attending the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
He returned to the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at 6:45 p.m. Nigerian time, bringing his six-day tour to the Arab country to a close.
Tinubu, who did not issue a national statement at the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai, gave his first public address on Saturday, December 1, at the Summit on Methane and Other Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases.
He spoke alongside the COP28 President, Dr. Ahmed Al-Jaber; the United States Special Envoy on Climate, John Kerry, and the Chinese Envoy on Climate, Xie Zhenhua, affirming Nigeria’s commitment to end gas flaring as part of its contribution to the global push to reduce methane emissions.
A day earlier, Friday, Tinubu and the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, witnessed the signing of a performance agreement to expedite the implementation of the 12,000 megawatts Presidential Power Initiative to improve electricity supply in Nigeria.
He also joined a panel on African Green Industrialisation organised by the COP28 Presidency and the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, where he harped on the need for risk management for Africa’s transition to cleaner energy.
At another high-level meeting with stakeholders and investors on the Nigeria Carbon Market and Electric Buses Rollout Programme, President Tinubu said Nigeria is taking a significant step towards a sustainable and eco-friendly future by deploying a fleet of 100 electric buses.
