A Nigerian EV assembly and incentive push was announced this year, framed as the country leapfrogging straight to electric transport. The investment is genuine. The framing skips past Nigeria's biggest energy problem.

What's real: the announced assembly and incentive commitments are backed by named companies and government policy documents.

What the coverage left out: Nigeria's national grid is chronically unreliable, with frequent blackouts. The large majority of homes and businesses that need continuous power already run on private generators, most of them diesel or petrol.

The bottom line: until the grid problem is addressed, the honest version of this story is about where the electricity for those cars is actually going to come from.