Three students of the Department of Aerospace Engineering of the
Kwara State University, Malete, have fabricated prototype equipment,
which if developed, could be used to wage war against Boko Haram
insurgents.
The prototype equipment are rocket, quadcopter
unmanned aerial
vehicle and fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle, fabricated by Abdulwasiu
Ahmed, Abdulkadir Habeebellah and Abdulrauf Sarafadeen..
Ahmed, in an interview with journalists on the sidelines of the
university’s 5thundergraduate research day on Wednesday, said the rocket
and the fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle could be used for bombing
and other military operations.
He stated that the quadcopter UAV could be used for aerial photography, surveillance, event recordings and examination.
He added that it could be used as security device to support security
guards in banks, companies, government and organisation’s buildings as
well as in residential houses.
Ahmed appealed to the Federal Government, corporate organisations,
donor agencies and other stakeholders to support them and other young
researchers in their efforts to innovate technologies that could
transform Nigeria.
The Vice Chancellor of KWASU, Prof. AbdulRasheed Na’Allah, and
Director, Centre for Undergraduate Research, Dr. Grace Abolaji,
emphasised the importance of research for national advancement.
Na’Allah, who was represented by his coordinator on Research and Industry, Prof. Adebayo Oladimeji, urged tertiary institutions to engage in researches that would solve societal problems.
Na’Allah, who was represented by his coordinator on Research and Industry, Prof. Adebayo Oladimeji, urged tertiary institutions to engage in researches that would solve societal problems.
He stated that the quality of a university was measured by its
research output, adding that research wa
“Research is generally better rewarded, for example by promotion, because its results are usually more tangible.
“It is our duty as academics to be innovative and to generate new
knowledge. It is our mandate as academics to develop methods of making
new and old knowledge beneficial to the present and future generations,”
Na’Allah said
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