This is one of d biggest LIES I've ever seen on NL,only 2 9ja sch went for d shell eco-marathon some months back and uniben's eco-tuketuke was d only 9ja car that actually took part in d race, unilag's car wasn't cleared for racing,but d press used to style to neither confirm nor deny,they just said they were hopeful that unilag's car wud be cleared d nxt day,uniben's eco-tuketuke didn't win(that's d best way to put it,cos I can't say we came last,we tried sha)...so though unilags car had nice asthetics,it didn't race,it didn't even pass d test phase,but unilag still tried salute to them,but that's wat I heard...this is what I was told by my course mate who went(they were actually 2 from my class #uniben)...

i hope say the teacher/supervisor go do the testing. make my poor fellow student nor go die young

I wish our leaders can learn from true patriotism shown by these young talents. Inspite of uninspiring state of our education system, these guys can still make impact at global stage. Kudos to you guys. What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies. It is a big shame that our so called leaders are busy looting, building nothing but corruption. Deris God o.

mastercee: Always representing! Greatest Akokites

GREAT GREEAT GREAT

Ok

See prof Moete oooh...

Lovely. Just as ingenious as the original Autonov by prof Awojobi. Nice work guys!

Proudly Unilag! Greatest akokites!

Feraz: Hehehe! Thanks. I can't apply again cos my level isn't permitted to. When I said not being a core member, I meant giving or helping out with some things there.

Mods, this news has been proven false; why not change the title? This news isn't true. It's sensationalism for Bleep's sake!!!!!

what department and year are u in?

no pictures? then it didn't happen

Great students....bringing theory to life.

oyb: www.nairaland.com/attachments/1632759_unilag_jpegd0843daa5fe1bff2e35ec26e5dcd681d

God forgive me - the lecturer just looks like hes along for the ride and provided 0 input

ignorance is indeed a disease....dat lecturer is called 'MOWETE' for a reason.. He's no random professor...

Good

CityNG: When we celebrate half baked schemes, we cannot hope to catapult ourselves to our place in the world.

Nigeria, I continue to weep for us.

With our vast resource and support from Shell, why are we not able to do better than this? We are comparing ourselves to ordinary Morocco?

Totally agree with you on this one.University of Johannesburg Solar car,designed and built by students...

THIS HOW PPL MATES ANGELS. I NEVA KNEW DAT DIS GUYS WERE BOUNCH OF
GENIUS WHEN I HOSTED SOME OF THEM IN MY HOUSE A DAY B4 DIS EXHIBITON
IN ROTTERDAM AHOY. I SAW DIS GUYS IN SHELL SWEATERS WITH NIGERIAN
FLAG COLOR ON THEM. I ASKED ARE U GUYS NAIJA BOYS. ''YEA, THEY SAID''. because THEY WIA IN GROUP
I ASKED WHAT R THEY UPTO WITH SHELL JAKETS. ''WE R HIA 4 EXHIBITION'' .
WE TOOK DE METRO TOGETHER AND I HELPED THEM TO LOCATE DIA HOTEL BY MAASHAVE DAT NITE.
AT DE END I INVITED THEM FOR A DINNER AT MY PLACE. WE HAD A VERY GUDTIME THAT NITE.
TOO BAD DAT I NEVA HEARD FROM DEM AGAIN. BUT AM GLAD I WAS MY NAIJA BRODAS KEEPER.

NOW DEY MADE ME MORE PROUD ON HEARING DIS NEWS.

#bigupteamnaija

oyb: www.nairaland.com/attachments/1632759_unilag_jpegd0843daa5fe1bff2e35ec26e5dcd681d

God forgive me - the lecturer just looks like hes along for the ride and provided 0 input

apologies to professor mowete

there have been multiple endorsements of the man by former unilag students

Thank goodness that it wasn't now that ebola virus is everywhere, they wouldn't have allowed them into their country. Honestly nigerian students are one of the most brilliant students in the world. Proudly NIGERIAN

Professor Ike Mowete is one of the brightest and finest Electrical Engineers in the WORLD. I am a graduate of Unilag and have a whole lot of friends he tutored and are doing excellently well in different parts of the world. He is a box of brain and a lecturer who doesn't teach from the books....Ask any Unilag Engineering graduate who Mowete is and how intelligent he is. For me not to be an engineering student but know so much about this man says volume.....Or do you think he is Unilag will just pick any lecturer to go for such an important competition?

oyb: www.nairaland.com/attachments/1632759_unilag_jpegd0843daa5fe1bff2e35ec26e5dcd681d

God forgive me - the lecturer just looks like hes along for the ride and provided 0 input

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Sure thing. I agree with you totally.

benbuks: That's my country doing it again. .

Nigeria is blessed to be great , we gat all we need , the brains , the talents , the creative minds & the no-giving up spirit along side the sufficient man power & resources to be on top of the world .

However , if all these unique & ingenious attribute finds good leadership & patriotic mind-set among it citizens , detesting any form of corruption, ill-sentiments & bias then shall Nigeria be world power , leading in good morals & technology .

congratulations more grace guys.. keep the fire burning ..


Btw:.F.p..tinz....(that m sure of )

#Team. there.is still hope for this nation.....*I BELIEVE ONLY I BELIEVE..*.

1LUV

Nice one. The sky is the limit for these youngsters. Congrats to all past and current alums of Unilag.

Greatest Akokaite Students!!!!

I can see dat Nigerians are tired of being fed lies. U want real news, then u shld see dis:
http://www.nutabolts.org/gallery.php
https://www.nairaland.com/977445/anambra-state-university-world-news

In 2011, students from Anambra state university (ANSU) designed and built a car, went to a global competition in UK (The formular students competition), amidst other top ranking universities from around the world numbering over hundred, came out tops, as in, won the competition and got honoured at the house of commons in London. That same group of young Engineers went back to the UK that same year and won first prize at the inaugural Institution of Mechanical Engineers population challenge at the House of Commons on Wednesday 23 November, for proposals to
deal with Nigeria’s growing food crisis, Turning vegetable oil into fuel, making sea water drinkable and starting a rail revolution.

Just Google "nutabolts" (that's what dis young enterprising engineers are called) and see the many accomplishments of this relatively UNKNOWN institution located in the east of the Niger.

Whoever is/are the proponents of this fake Unilag story, I think u can do better!

bajeen: It might be unthinkable, yet it did happen. The University of Lagos community developed a racing car which beat many competitors at a global automobile competition

It is a racing car! It is one that may not be too common in this part of the world but was conceived, developed and put to test here and abroad. Known as Autonov II, the racing car is a brainchild of staff and students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and has competed for, and gained fame on the global automobile stage.
Former Minister of Information, who is now Chairman, Governing Council of UNILAG, Prof. Jerry Gana was on a visit to the institution recently. And for the management, there could not have been a better time to showcase the school’s inherent potentials. In this regard, Autonov II, UNILAG’s latest exploit in science and technology came handy.
Fuel-efficient and electronically-powered, the design, fabrication and running of Autonov II had been funded solely by Shell Petroleum Plc. The racing car had participated alongside automobile inventions from other 203 tertiary institutions across the world at a car racing competition in the Netherlands, emerging the third best overall.
Twenty students and lecturers of the school were said to have done the bulk of the work on Autonov II. From the Department of Mechanical Engineering to those of Creative Arts, Physics, Mass Communication, Electrical/Electronic and Architecture, the students were assembled and after a two-month intensive exercise, Autonov II was developed.
“We started by building the skill-set we needed. We built the designs, the fraction, the china system and the body, among others and those who could integrate all of these together did. Of course, this has to be carried out by the students. When we finished, we selected the team we wanted. What we did was to advertise and ask that students who possess various skills we needed should indicate by applying. We interviewed them and selected a team of 20 students which we later pruned,” Prof. Ikem Owete, leader of the team that manufactured Autonov II narrated.
The team leaders thereafter asked the selected students to work differently. The mechanical group worked on the frame. The material team worked on the body. The Creative Art student is a sculptor who constructed the body himself. Students from electrical engineering worked on the electrical and electronic control. The team, Prof Owete recalled, had some challenges with the control a day before the competition. The car simply stopped working. But by some “miraculous intervention,” it later began to work.
“One thing I can tell you was that these students from Electrical Engineering made their own PCVs (positive crankcase ventilation, an automotive-emission control valve that recirculates gases through the combustion chambers to permit more complete combustion) manually without a machine. They got the chemical, the drawing on the computer, the components and made the transfer to the PCVs all on their own. Initially, we wanted to get an outsider for this but they came to me and said, ‘Sir, we can do it’ and I said to them, ‘Go ahead and do it. If you don’t try, you can’t succeed.’ And they did. I am very proud of them. You really need to see their performance,” Owete said.
UNILAG was not the only Nigerian tertiary institution that made it to the racing competition. University of Benin (UNIBEN) also did. But while the UNIBEN invention could not make it to the track, UNILAG’s Autonov II did. And out of the 203 schools that competed, UNILAG was the only one from Africa, aside the two others that came from Morocco.
“Our utmost aim and objective right from the first day was how we would pass the rigorous tests and get Autonov II on the track. We had our major scare when we got to the competition and were about to participate when one of our wheels buckled for the first time. This happened a day to the time we were to have our first test. We had not had any test prior to that time. But our team spirit and determination prevailed; we took the car to the welding shop and the wheel and every other thing were fixed. Thereafter, we went for the four-stage test and we passed,” Victoria Olakanmi, a 400-level Physics student who played a role in fixing the car’s electrical lightings and also acted as the reserve driver said.
Olakanmi said being the only black Africans among the competitors, they were really not given any chance by many of their rivals and spectators, especially since they were observers at the competition last year. “Many of our rivals brought big and high-powered equipment to the competition, but we dazed them when we emerged third best overall,” she said.
For the university’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdulrahman Bello, if anything, that remarkable feat has placed UNILAG on a global pedestal. “I feel vindicated and elated. I have always said the education we give at the UNILAG is second to none. We have what it takes to always excel and we also have all the professionals that can perform feats. That was exactly what our students and members of academic staff have shown. We can vouch for our graduates at every point in time. I am very happy this is happening when I am here,” Prof. Bello said.
Asked to comment on the issue of sustainability, the Vice Chancellor reminded everyone that this would not be the first time the school would be manufacturing a car. A former lecturer of the school, the late Prof. Awojobi was reputed to have single-handedly manufactured a car named Autonov. The VC said it was in the quest to key into that line of innovation that made the school call the latest invention Autonov II. He added that the two cars will be placed in the university’s prospective museum.
Based on its feat at the Netherlands, the UNILAG has been invited to participate in a similar competition coming up in Cape Town, South Africa in October. The school expects to have developed another car before then for the competition.
Prof. Gana expressed delight over the manufacturing of Autonov II and assured UNILAG’s authorities of government’s interest in developing the innate potential of every student there and, indeed, that of every Nigerian student.

SOURCE : http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/sunday/index.php/business/17800-how-made-in-unilag-car-defeated-world-powers

. Pics orr?

;(pinshure or i dont beliv it

Doroskilled! How nice kudos to them.

ennon92: The sky is our limits.

ur mate dey enter moon and mars..mscheew

crisycent: No pic? Abi na drawing board stage e dey?

u funny die...lol

Please the moderator of Nairaland should always try to confirm any information posting on this forum.I was one the member of the team that built AutonovII and this same news has generated a lot of controversies, so this is from the Head of the Team, Prof Ike Mowete
a) TEAM UNILAG PASSED TECHNICAL INSPECTION
b) AUTONOV II raced on TRACK
c) BUT TEAM UNILAG'S races DID NOT COUNT due a failure of motor controller unit.
d) It is completely false and embarrassing to state that the TEAM placed third.
Best regards;
ike mowete

ibrahimofic: Please the moderator of Nairaland should always try to confirm any information posting on this forum.I was one the member of the team that built AutonovII and this same news has generated a lot of controversies, so this is from the Head of the Team, Prof Ike Mowete
a) TEAM UNILAG PASSED TECHNICAL INSPECTION
b) AUTONOV II raced on TRACK
c) BUT TEAM UNILAG'S races DID NOT COUNT due a failure of motor controller unit.
d) It is completely false and embarrassing to state that the TEAM placed third.
Best regards;
ike mowete

Thanks for the confirmation.

Commendable.... keep it up

bajeen:
“One thing I can tell you was that these students from Electrical Engineering made their own PCVs (positive crankcase ventilation, an automotive-emission control valve that recirculates gases through the combustion chambers to permit more complete combustion) manually without a machine. They got the chemical, the drawing on the computer, the components and made the transfer to the PCVs all on their own. Initially, we wanted to get an outsider for this but they came to me and said, ‘Sir, we can do it’ and I said to them, ‘Go ahead and do it. If you don’t try, you can’t succeed.’ And they did. I am very proud of them. You really need to see their performance,” Owete said.

These are the kinds of rare stories I want to hear from Nigeria that will make me fcking go:



Not the numerous cretinous fcktards I see on NL like collynzo2 who all they know is my tribe and "I hate Ghana".

Pure fcktards!