fulanimafia:
See what a Fulani genius from Sokoto designed...






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqx-xKGeDCA

https://www.nairaland.com/2069676/meet-jelani-aliyu-nigerian-genius

The Chevrolet Volt, an innovative electric car, among others.

Three Ohioans were instrumental in designing and engineering the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid car.

Bob Boniface

Everyone knew that Bob Boniface should design cars. Everyone but the man who is now the lead designer of General Motors Volt electric car.



Plain Dealer Reporter Robert Schoenberger interviews Bob Boniface
Boniface's father, Raymond, a retired psychiatrist, said his son's childhood obsession with cars sometimes caused problems.

"He was terrible. As a little boy, his homework coming home from the fifth grade would have pictures of cars all around it," Raymond Boniface said from his home in the Youngstown suburb of Poland, Ohio. When Bob was 8, he gave his father a card that said 'Happy Birthday Dad,' with cars all over it.

Who could blame him?

His father collected cars.

The youngest of eight children (four boys, four girls), Bob polished the chrome on the Alfa Romeos in his father's collection.

It wasn't enough for him.

"I was one of those kids who knew every car on the road," he said. "I would sketch the pictures I saw in the owner's manuals [of his father's cars], pictures of the gas tank, pictures of the instrument panel and the steering wheel and the controls. Anything to do with cars, I couldn't get enough of it."

But when it came time to leave Poland, Boniface pursued a degree in psychology and economics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. After graduation, he ended up in Boston working for an investment company.

The sketching never stopped.

"I wasn't making a lot of money, so the decision was pretty easy," Boniface said. He left Boston for Detroit, where he entered the College of Creative Studies. After graduation, he spent 12 years at Chrysler working on vehicles such as the Chrysler 300 and Jeep Liberty. He joined GM in 2004, working on the new hydrogen-powered Sequel concept car and later the Camaro sports car.

Boniface's father said he sees influence of the Italian cars he collected in his son's designs.

"We love cars for the art form. They reflect the culture," Raymond Boniface said.

The Italian cars he loves have a live-for-the-moment feel. His son, he said, can marry that vivacious spirit to his Midwestern need for practicality.

Bob Boniface said the combination of passion and common sense is what draws a lot of people from this state to the auto industry.

"I can usually tell an Ohio person," Boniface said. "It's a Midwest thing. They're very balanced and rational thinkers.. . . . People understand how to build things. It's a positive, can-do attitude."



Ken Karbon

Ken Karbon isn't a car guy.

Sure, he has worked for General Motors for nearly 20 years and can point to dozens of features on cars that he created.



Ken Karbon discusses the Volt
But as one of two aerodynamics specialists working on the Chevrolet Volt, it's still the engineering challenge, not the car itself, that excites him.

"I could do this on airplanes or golf balls or anything," said the Parma native and 1984 graduate of Valley Forge High School.

Karbon's mother, Dorothy said her son was born to be an engineer. The youngest of four children and her only son, Ken was always building something or taking something else apart.

When Ken was 5, Dorothy watched him play with a set of Tinker Toys for hours.

"Just by looking at the picture, he could put things together. We never had to help him," she said.

The things he built got more complicated as he got older. When Ken was 11, he and his father built a cage to catch a bird. Her son had found a diagram in a magazine.

"Sure enough, a bird flew in there, and the door closed," she said. He set the bird free immediately. "He just wanted to see if he could do it."

After high school, Karbon earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University. He got several job offers, but most of them were for project management positions. He wanted to work on jet engines or some sort of complex machinery, not direct others.

"The job at GM seemed the most technical engineering application of the things that I learned at Ohio State," Karbon said. He might not have been a car lover, but the company offered the chance to work on tough engineering puzzles.

After he spent a few years designing suspensions and other components, GM awarded Karbon a fellowship to the University of Michigan. After that, he concentrated more on computer modeling and aerodynamics, the two areas that interested him most when he was at Ohio State.

After all of those years and having his fingerprints on dozens of car designs, Karbon said he's still not a car lover. His mother agreed, saying he chose his first vehicle strictly for practicality.

Dorothy Karbon said that when Ken turned 16, "He wanted a truck. He really didn't care about the engine as long as it took him to his fishing and hunting. That's all he cared about."


Gary Ruiz

Teresita Ruiz remembers the day when her son told she and her husband that he was giving up his career as a pharmacist to draw pictures for a living.



Hear from Gary Ruiz

"We were both so mad," Ruiz said from her home in Parma. "He should be looking for a profession that would be a high-paying job to support a family."
A pharmacist herself, she knew it was a safe, stable career. Getting paid to draw pictures of cars didn't feel right to his mother, who came to the United States from the Philippines in 1969.

She's less concerned these days. Former St. Ignatius hockey player Gary Ruiz is one of the lead designers of the Chevrolet Volt, General Motors' highest-profile vehicle.

Gary Ruiz also remembers the day he told his parents about his decision.

" 'You're going to be a starving artist,' That was the first reaction," he said.

His mother said she was happy that he at least had his pharmacy degree from Ohio State University if things didn't work out.

Looking back, she said, he was always drawing. A Crayon and a pad of paper could keep him happy for hours.

Gary said he tried pharmacy but knew after six months that he needed to go back to school. A year later, he entered Detroit's College of Creative Studies.

His mother said companies quickly noticed her son. He interned with BMW in California one year. The next, he was in Japan interning with Toyota. In addition to the internships, he kept winning or placing high in automotive design contests.

Ruiz said design school had four-month-long summer breaks. He would intern for three months. While his classmates spent the final month waiting tables or doing odd jobs, he filled out prescriptions.

"It was possible back then because of the shortage of pharmacists," Ruiz said.

When he graduated, he had offers from GM, Chrysler, Ford, Nissan and others. Teresita Ruiz said she encouraged her son to stay closer to home, and he chose the job with Chrysler. About a year later, GM came in with a better offer.

Teresita Ruiz said she doesn't understand a lot of what her son does with the Volt program, only that he seems to be doing well.

Gary Ruiz said he's just happy his parents realize that he can make a living as a designer.

"Now, I think they're just happy for me," Ruiz said.

Ikengawo:
The fulani are locust. Simple. They have not developed to the level of the surrounding africans or any other ground of human beings around them. They're just locusts. They drop, eat the vegetation, destroy the land, breed in uncontrollably then die with their hatchlings lefts to pillage farms from one end of africa to another. What has the locust contributed to this earth? Nothing. I can only take, then travel to search for more to take

Don't believe me? This is the ancestoral home of the Fulani. Futa Jallon today. In 2000 years of human activity in that land this is all they have developed.

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Housing that's no more advanced than an upside down birds nest.
Disease and a life expectancy of 41.
You're now going to America to teach them how to make Cars abi?

What's worst is the guy he's claiming invented the Volt (lol), had his education paid for with Niger Delta/East Nigeria oil lol. Pathetic beggars and killers.

OtunbaJega:
Op u are a bitter fellow.. na so the thing pain you reach... why are igbo people like this.... full of hatred

attacker231:



See hatred. You guys are something else. Gosh

OtunbaJega:



They are very disgusting set of animals... I regret being in the same country as this iboooo guys... so full of hatred

OtunbaJega:
It's a team project. The Aliyu guy is an exterior designer.... why are you idiotsss always jealous of other people cos of tribe or something... bunch of animalssss called ibooos

frankyychiji:
Otunba, how does putting the records straight for the benefit of gullible NLers be called bitterness? Please explain.

OtunbaJega:
Op u are a bitter fellow.. na so the thing pain you reach... why are igbo people like this.... full of hatred

OtunbaJega:



What record?.. so u mumus doesn't know project like dat r executed by a team of professionals... the Aliyu guy was probably part of the team that designed the exterior... why the hate?.. the guy is in GM enjoying his money and this poverty stricken op is here spreading his hate filled nonsense

OtunbaJega:



What record?.. so u mumus doesn't know project like dat r executed by a team of professionals... the Aliyu guy was probably of the team that designed the exterior... why the hate?.. the guy is in GM enjoying his money and this poverty stricken op is here spreading his hate filled nonsense

Ikengawo:



see how the fool is trying to use idea to dodge his destiny. Nna eh, If it's hausa people you want to confuse remember it's because they're stupid. If you venture too far south we'll expose the child molesters for who they are. I dedicate this thread to the lives lost in Jos to these animals.

Ikengawo:



see how the fool is trying to use idea to dodge his destiny. Nna eh, If it's hausa people you want to confuse remember it's because they're stupid. If you venture too far south we'll expose the child molesters for who they are. I dedicate this thread to the lives lost in Jos to these animals.

Ikengawo:



see how the fool is trying to use idea to dodge his destiny. Nna eh, If it's hausa people you want to confuse remember it's because they're stupid. If you venture too far south we'll expose the child molesters for who they are. I dedicate this thread to the lives lost in Jos to these animals.

Ikengawo:



see how the fool is trying to use idea to dodge his destiny. Nna eh, If it's hausa people you want to confuse remember it's because they're stupid. If you venture too far south we'll expose the child molesters for who they are. I dedicate this thread to the lives lost in Jos to these animals.

dulaman:


but the president is a Fulani man.,do you mean that Nigerians are now cows?

but the president is a Fulani man.,do you mean that Nigerians are now cows?

Fulani man who drugs, rapes, robs ladies who ask for 'lifts' arrested


A young Fulani man who specializes in picking up stranded ladies along the road before proceeding to drug, rape and rob them, has been arrested
Published: 02.04.2015 Isaac DachenPrinteMail
Isah Buruku showing the police how he misses his drugs.play
Isah Buruku showing the police how he misses his drugs. (Tribune)
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A Fulani man, Isah Buruku, has been arrested by the Oyo State Poilce Command over alleged rape and robbery of women who stand by the road side and look to be given free rides, otherwise known as 'lift'.
The 26-year-old Buruku was also docked for unlawful possession of an English double-barrel gun.
While parading the suspect among other criminals, the state Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Musa Katsina, told journalists that Buruku had been on the wanted list of the police for the offence of armed robbery and rape in Igbeti town and its environs.
His cup was finally full when he was arrested at Bakasse, a border village between Kwara and Oyo States.
The CP further mentioned that Buruku who lives in Igbeti, had a Volkwagen Golf car and used to go to Gambari community to relax where trailer and tanker drivers and other commuters have a stop over before going to the northern part of Nigeria.
At such points, there are also some ladies who wait to hitch free rides and those were usually his victims.
According to the police, Buruku's modus operandi was that he would have taken his time to study the young ladies seeking for a free ride.
From there, he was said to have come up with a method of approaching any young lady waiting on the highway, pretending as if he wanted to assist her. He would convince the lady that it would be difficult to get a ride easily at that point, offering to help such a lady to Eyenkorin in Kwara State where she would get a vehicle faster and cheaper.
While in the car, the suspect who is married with two children, would offer the lady some drinks which, unknown to her, had been laced with drugs that would induce sleep.
After the lady must have slept, he would allegedly make a u-turn and take the lady to an apartment he rented and raped her.
After raping the lady, he would reportedly ransack her belongings, steal any valuable he could lay his hands, after which he would leave her to her fate.
His albatross came when he picked a lady which he kept for five days, raping her continuously in her unconscious state the whole time.
At the end of the fifth day, he was alleged to have removed the N50,000 he found in her bag and left.
Two days later, the lady woke up and raised the alarm, which made neighbours to rush towards her to assist her. The lady informed the police that she had gathered the money stolen by Isah to take home for the treatment of her sick mother before she fell into his trap.
When interrogated by the police, Buruku confessed to the crime, admitting that he had carnal knowledge of the lady and also stole N50,000 from her, after which he ran to Ilorin, Kwara State to hide.

fulanimafia:


Common Sense 101 = Directors/Managers do not design cars. He was the highest in the design team as Senior Creative Designer.

In your haste to debunk the globally celebrated H/F son Aliyu, you failed to engage your brain or whats left of it apparently.