UK-trained Nigerian engineer Timothy Addigi Terfa is getting ready to launch a Nigerian-built tractor. Mr Terfa said: "I designed and built this tractor, which is 100% Nigerian, with a team of skilled individuals." He has called the tractor Ijodo, meaning labour in the Tiv language.

For many, agriculture is still manual in Nigeria because of the high cost of farm machinery.

Some Ijodo tractors have been sold, but the engineer is looking for more investment.

Mr Terfa wants to inspire others:

“My greatest desire is that someone out there will be encouraged and motivated to do something with the ideas they have to make Nigeria better.”

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/07/uk-trained-nigerian-engineer-timothy.html

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Nice one. We will get there someday

These are are the skills that should be refined and encouraged for our growth. He should be granted funds to start up a company

Lovely

I am sorry I have to be a bit negative about this news. Many of these inventors are just really after the popularity, not actually seeking to bring down the project to the poor farmers that need it. There has been Tryctor, a similar tractor designed by a Nigerian guy with lots of prospects but he went for an award nomination and voila! Nothing else about it again.
We are tried of Internet inventions we don't get to see working out in our local communities.