Thursday, 21 April 2016

NIGERIA: SEVEN FINAL-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS OF UNIZIK CONSTRUCT A MINI BUS

Seven final year engineering students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State have designed and constructed a mini bus which they named 'Autobully' from scratch with locally sourced materials.
The car is designed to suit the topography and climatic condition of Nigeria.

Callistus Ezeigwe one of the seven said,
"We constructed the chassis, down to every single part of the mini bus".

The seven students have been named Autozik Group and comprise of six males and a female. Their names are, Callistus Ezeigwe, Victor Obinani, Ifeanyi Ezeanolue, Ogbu Ikenna, Fidelis Ominigbo, Nnamdi Nwobodo and Chinaza Okoro.

They were 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 eqquipment, as used in most automobile companies", Callistus said.

The mini bus took the students five months to complete. With its beautiful finishing, people find it difficult to believe it is locally hand made.

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