KANO (AFP) - Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts.

"It took me eight months to build this one," he said, sweat pouring from his forehead as he filled the radiator of the banana yellow four-seater which he now parks in the grounds of his university.

The chopper, which has flown briefly on six occasions, is made from scrap aluminium that Abdullahi bought with the money he makes from computer and mobile phone repairs, and a donation from his father, who teaches at Kano's Bayero university.

i hope they aint going to waste this talant too

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/nigeriahelicopteroffbeat

in fact, i'm very delited at reading this.it's quite a good innovation from a nigerian student.i hope the nigerian government won't let him waste.i'll suggest to him that if the govt ignores him,he should go to countrys that would need him so that he can be beneficial for the whole world just as phillip emegwali has done in ICT.thumbs up for him.

i think that is a welcome development and the federal government should know what to do in order to encourage him and assist his further studies abroad and also encourage his mates at home by providing them with the necessary facilities.

good one, a lautech student also made one. i'm proud of our stuffs
remember autonov?