Nigeria is counted among automobile manufacturers in the world, an
industrialist, Innocent Chukwuma, chairman of Innoson Motors, took a
bold step by investing in the Automobile sector. The Innoson Vehicle
Manufacturing (IVM) Company has made Nigeria proud.
Engineering students following in Innoson’s footsteps, seven final-year engineering students
of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, designed and
constructed a mini bus from scratch with locally sourced materials made
specially to suit Nigeria’s topography and climatic condition.
“The bus was constructed from start to finish at the University’s
workshop, using all necessary design software and Computer-Aided Design
(CAD) tools. We constructed the chassis, down to every single part of
the mini bus,” said Callistus Ezeigwe, one of the seven.
The group, known as the Autozik Group, was made up of six males and a
female including Callistus Ezeigwe, Victor Obinani, Ifeanyi Ezeanolue,
Ogbu Ikenna, Fidelis Ominigbo, Nnamdi Nwobodo and Chinaza Okoro, was
supervised by the then Head of Mechanical Engineering Department, Dr.
C.H. Achebe.
“We made the mini bus using mere hand tools. This means we did all of
the constructions and folding, with our hands, since the university
could not provide us with ground equipment, as used in most automobile
companies,” said Ezeugwu.
According to Vanguard, the mini bus which took about five months to
complete, has a beautiful finishing so that people find it difficult to
believe it was made in Nigeria.
These young men have shown some sense of doggedness and proficiency
and they must not be allowed to be swept away by the tide of brain
drain.
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