John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK), after resuming office as President in the early 60’s, during the era of Space Race by the 2 super powers, challenged his nations scientists and Engineers ‘to land a man on the moon and return him safely to the earth’ before the decade ran out and this was accomplished as National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) met the president’s time table (a few African-American Scientists took part in the project), unfortunately JFK did not live to see his dream come true as he was assassinated in office (probably as a result of his Human Right policies which was in favor of black race).

The likes of Benjamin Carson (African-American pediatric neurosurgeon), who was the first man in the world to separate twins joined at the head and both children survived - medically referred to as Occipital-Craniopagus twins; and Ayodele Awojobi (Inventor & first African to be awarded a post-Doctoral degree of Doctor of Science {DSc Hons} by Imperial College (UK) in Mechanical Vibration & Structural Resonance at age 35), has revealed that the black race is not intellectually-inferior to their western counterpart.
The duos have placed themselves on same scientific leverage like Albert Einstein.

The electric-car was developed as an alternative to cars powered by hydrocarbon (fossil) fuel; they have 3 main components; Electric Power train (motor +controller +gear box), car body (chassis +Passenger cabin) and Battery. Today the technology needed for electric power train and car body have been perfected, except for the stubborn battery obstacle.
A major technical challenge an electric car has is a limited driving range, i.e., the distance one can travel per battery charge, after which the car batteries must be recharged, also the recharge time is quite long (about 8 hrs). The range limits the use of electric cars for urban office commute.

In line with reducing greenhouse effect in our country & as a result of the shameful incessant fuel scarcity in an oil producing state such as ours, Senator–elect, Ben Murrey Bruce, purchased an electric-car.

The senator-elect in line with all this limitation has challenged and placed a price tag of 10 million dollars (chaiiii na money oooooh!), to our local scientists cum engineers to come up with a solutions by inventing battery that will propel the car for a range of 300miles, as this will enable people travel long distance before a recharge.


It’s worthy to note that our Oil & Gas design industry, with aid of local content have developed our Engineers capacity, which is at the verge of bringing our local engineers to world class professionals in no distant time.

At this stage of our development, no challenge should be too big a task to handle.





Wale Oyedokun