Kudos to Nigeria's Jelani Aliyu, lead designer of "Chevy Volt". And he is from Sokoto. I hope this lofty achievement will help dispel widely held stereotypes about Northerners.

http://news.africast.com/africastv/article.php?newsID=61045

Young Kim, Design Manager, Advanced Vehicles, Jelani Aliyu, Creative Designer, Advanced Vehicles, Anne Asensio, Executive Director, Advanced Vehicle Design.

Heh. Congrats to him.

Nigerians are the best

damola1:

Nigerians are the best

No, Bestest is it. LOL

i spoke too soon, didnt see the link,

but still, why the fck does he look like yesterday

Dem don start o!

Area_boy:

but,

what proof do we have to show that

1-    he is nigerian

2-    he actually designed the car alone and not in a team

3-    why the fck does he look like yesterday, 

i'm not hating,  just curious

I was already wondering why this topic did not receive enough attention since 2007 when it was first posted & criticism as is customary on Nairaland on everything positive about naija! Now, they have stated coming in, just when I thought for once this would be an exception. Anyway, na dem sabi!
I salute this young man whoever he is and wish him the very best of the future!

@poster,
maybe if you scan and put up a current copy of his bio-data page of his international passport, our guys will begin to believe!