Team UNIBEN has previously also broken a record when
they attended the Shell eco-marathon Europe in may
2014 with its first made in Nigeria car Tuketuke, making
it the first team from Sub Saharan Africa to participate in
the Shell eco-marathon. These two cars were handmade
by these students alone in the workshop.
Tuketuke has innovative features like automatic
windscreen wiper, button actuated gears, fingerprint
access, ankara interior and fibreglass body. Both cars
won all 10 technical and safety inspections, which I
might add, are world standard, that qualified them to
race on the track.
They are currently taking yet another challenge to build
two cars that will participate in another shell eco-
marathon in the Netherlands next year.
Students involved include: Osas Omijie, Festus ibidapo,
adekola adeyemi, abdulmalik tajliad, Daniel okwoka,
justice Oyemike, emmanuel Ajari, eloghosa iyamu, James
itoro, Jennifer orji, Anne monye, Michael olukoya,and
Victor adegboye, 13 students in total supervised by
Professor Akii Ibhadode (Winner, NLNG Award for
Science, 2010).

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