The Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, Ondo
State has emerged the best school in Nigeria at the 2014
edition of the National Education Innovations Exhibition
Competition held in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.
The annual exhibition was organised by the Federal
Ministry of Education. It featured exhibition of different
innovative creative works across board.
The school’s fabricated cassava peeler, other machines
and yellow cassava grains presented at the competition
became the bride of the panel of judges which saw it
clinching the first position against other Universities
across the nation.
The yellow cassava grains became the choice of the
panelists over the white produced by other schools
because of its fortified Vitamin A and original nature.
Presenting the award to the school on behalf of Ibrahim
Shekarau, Minister of Education, Oluwole Olukunle in the
ministry commended the creativity and high intellect
displayed by FUTA at the exhibition.
Receiving the award, Adebiyi Daramola, Vice Chancellor of
the school said, “This is positive and we thank God for it.
We have a good name that we must always protect and
sustain.”
He added that, “This feat should be the beginning and
should further spur our researchers to show the world that
our credo of Technology for self-reliance is not in words
only but also in deeds. We must constantly improve on
our inventions and perfect them for the industries.”

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Nice one dere futa