I cannot count the number of videos of young talented Nigerians who have invented different amazing things in the past three decades. But I am going to refer to the last three recent ones that have actually tied me down to write this piece.
We saw the BCC footage of Musa Aliyu, a young secondary school leaver in Ilorin, Kwara State with this great talent in aeronautic technology. Despite that Aliyu was not guided by any expert, he has been able to construct several drones with which he can deliver packages outside Ilorin. That is quite amazing!
Mustapha Abubakar Gajibo is another talented young Nigerian whose BCC videos have been circulating on the social-media for quite some time. A university drop-out from Borno State, Mustapha started by converting mini-buses into electric ones, using them for commercial transportation thereby easing the hardship people went through during fuel scarcity. But in the last footage of him I saw, he has started constructing the buses himself.
Yet in another viral video is the story of anther young talented Nigerian secondary school student in Lagos State, Babatimileyi Daomi who constructed several prototype objects like vacuum cleaner, an amazing microscope, pumping machine and motorbike.
These three together with many other talented Nigerians I have ever seen their works would always have a common thing to say, ‘If I can get the government’s support, I can do better than this.’ But, surprisingly, I have never seen anyone of them receiving the required attention from any governments. Yet, technological innovation is a yard-stick with which countries are judged to be serious, developing and advancing. At least, the United Arab Emirate is a testimony. One would then be forced to ask if Nigeria is a cursed nation destined not to develop technologically.
Musa Aliyu is just one out of many Nigerians I have seen displaying talents in aeronautics. If Nigeria could be serious enough to bring them together and provide them with their needs in order to produce drones in large quantity, would that not go a long way in solving our security challenges in the area of surveillance? Now that the world is determined, more than ever before, to switch away from fuel-powered vehicles to electric ones, don’t Mustapha Abubakar and other young Nigerians making individual efforts in electric cars deserve some serious attention now so that Nigeria can be counted as one of the countries championing the technology? Or do our leaders think that oil will forever continue to be relevant?
Sixty five years ago, Nigeria, South Korea and Brazil, each from a different continent, were rated, with the United Nations’ criteria, to have attained the ‘same’ level of development. But today, the other two countries have moved far ahead. Apart from South Korea, for instance, being the 10th largest economy in the world, the country can boast of putting forward the global household LG brand, Samsung, medical robotic technology, walking cars and artificial intelligence. Brazil has also broken the record of being the first country to put forward Direct-Recording electronic Voting machine, first unassisted flight as well as the discovery of caller ID. What can Nigeria boast of?
May be music and the frivolous reality TV shows. As if they can lead to any development, these are the only things our governments can spend the last kobo in our treasury on. How many politicians visited these young inventors in the same way they visited to show support to Hilda Bacci while trying to break Guinness Record for cooking? This alone is enough for us to know that the politicians are not concerned about our future but only about their re-election.
When India had their breakthrough in automobile production for the first time some sixty years ago, the country immediately placed a ban on the importation of any other cars into the country. Therefore, from the Prime Minister to the taxi drivers on the streets, everyone used the same type of car popularly called ‘Ambassador.’ If you watched any Indian movie in the eighties to nineties, it was the only car you would see in their movies. This went on for fifty years before the country eventually lifted the ban. By then, they had sufficiently developed their own automobile industry, leading to the springing up of some other automobile plants.
When Nigeria had similar breakthrough many years later with Innoson automobile production, one would think that the country would do the same thing or, at least, cut down importation of foreign cars to favour local production. Today, Innosion Motors is still struggling to get market in its own country.
Nigeria is about the only country among the OPEC giants which does not refine its own oil. It has its four different refineries which are not working. But then, like a cursed nation, Nigeria has to take its oil outside the country to be refined in order to be imported back into the country. Who does that?

GOD BLESS NIGERIA!

I cannot count the number of videos of young talented Nigerians who have invented different amazing things in the past three decades. But I am going to refer to the last three recent ones that have actually tied me down to write this piece.
We saw the BCC footage of Musa Aliyu, a young secondary school leaver in Ilorin, Kwara State with this great talent in aeronautic technology. Despite that Aliyu was not guided by any expert, he has been able to construct several drones with which he can deliver packages outside Ilorin. That is quite amazing!
Mustapha Abubakar Gajibo is another talented young Nigerian whose BCC videos have been circulating on the social-media for quite some time. A university drop-out from Borno State, Mustapha started by converting mini-buses into electric ones, using them for commercial transportation thereby easing the hardship people went through during fuel scarcity. But in the last footage of him I saw, he has started constructing the buses himself.
Yet in another viral video is the story of anther young talented Nigerian secondary school student in Lagos State, Babatimileyi Daomi who constructed several prototype objects like vacuum cleaner, an amazing microscope, pumping machine and motorbike.
These three together with many other talented Nigerians I have ever seen their works would always have a common thing to say, ‘If I can get the government’s support, I can do better than this.’ But, surprisingly, I have never seen anyone of them receiving the required attention from any governments. Yet, technological innovation is a yard-stick with which countries are judged to be serious, developing and advancing. At least, the United Arab Emirate is a testimony. One would then be forced to ask if Nigeria is a cursed nation destined not to develop technologically.
Musa Aliyu is just one out of many Nigerians I have seen displaying talents in aeronautics. If Nigeria could be serious enough to bring them together and provide them with their needs in order to produce drones in large quantity, would that not go a long way in solving our security challenges in the area of surveillance? Now that the world is determined, more than ever before, to switch away from fuel-powered vehicles to electric ones, don’t Mustapha Abubakar and other young Nigerians making individual efforts in electric cars deserve some serious attention now so that Nigeria can be counted as one of the countries championing the technology? Or do our leaders think that oil will forever continue to be relevant?
Sixty five years ago, Nigeria, South Korea and Brazil, each from a different continent, were rated, with the United Nations’ criteria, to have attained the ‘same’ level of development. But today, the other two countries have moved far ahead. Apart from South Korea, for instance, being the 10th largest economy in the world, the country can boast of putting forward the global household LG brand, Samsung, medical robotic technology, walking cars and artificial intelligence. Brazil has also broken the record of being the first country to put forward Direct-Recording electronic Voting machine, first unassisted flight as well as the discovery of caller ID. What can Nigeria boast of?
May be music and the frivolous reality TV shows. As if they can lead to any development, these are the only things our governments can spend the last kobo in our treasury on. How many politicians visited these young inventors in the same way they visited to show support to Hilda Bacci while trying to break Guinness Record for cooking? This alone is enough for us to know that the politicians are not concerned about our future but only about their re-election.
When India had their breakthrough in automobile production for the first time some sixty years ago, the country immediately placed a ban on the importation of any other cars into the country. Therefore, from the Prime Minister to the taxi drivers on the streets, everyone used the same type of car popularly called ‘Ambassador.’ If you watched any Indian movie in the eighties to nineties, it was the only car you would see in their movies. This went on for fifty years before the country eventually lifted the ban. By then, they had sufficiently developed their own automobile industry, leading to the springing up of some other automobile plants.
When Nigeria had similar breakthrough many years later with Innoson automobile production, one would think that the country would do the same thing or, at least, cut down importation of foreign cars to favour local production. Today, Innosion Motors is still struggling to get market in its own country.
Nigeria is about the only country among the OPEC giants which does not refine its own oil. It has its four different refineries which are not working. But then, like a cursed nation, Nigeria has to take its oil outside the country to be refined in order to be imported back into the country. Who does that?

GOD BLESS NIGERIA!

By Bashir Alabi (08034205451)
alabibashir@gmail.com

Our governments also wants to trend with the news , they have nothing good to offer

I think you should follow up on their story most of them got contacted by Ministry of Science and Technology

Someone should please help me summarize.

Even indian film nor long reach this epistle.