While as a lecturer in the University of Lagos, Awojobi successfully converted his own family car, an Opel Olympia Rekord, from right-hand drive to a left-hand drive.

He tinkered further with motor engines when he acquired an army-type jeep and proceeded to invent a second steering-wheel mechanism, adjoined to the pre-existing engine at the rear end, so that the vehicle was able to move in both forward and backward directions with all four pre-existing gears. This gave the hybrid vehicle, which he christened Autonov 1, the ability to achieve its highest speeds at a moment's notice, in the normal reverse direction. He highlighted the advantage this might offer to army vehicles, as an example, that might need to make a fast retreat, in a cul-de-sac or ambush situation.

Ayodele Awojobi died in the morning of Sunday, 23 September 1984, at the age of 47. His death made headline news in most of the national newspapers for days following and he was laid to rest at Ikorodu Cemetery, Lagos. He was survived by his wife, Mrs Iyabode Mabel Awojobi (née Odetunde), and children.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayodele_Awojobi

After a period teaching at the University of Lagos, he returned to the Imperial College London for a research study in the field of Vibration, and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science, DSc. He was the first African to be awarded the Doctor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, at the Imperial College London.

The first university to admit an individual to this degree was in fact the University of London in 1860.

The status of the degree has declined, however, because it is not widely understood but in former times the doctorate in science was regarded as a greater distinction than a professorial chair. It is in fact a higher tier of research doctorates, awarded on the basis of a formally submitted portfolio of published research of a very high standard.

To have received the award at the age of 37 is significant, more so as the degree is only exceptionally and rarely awarded to a scholar under the age of 40.


On his return from England in 1966 Awojobi enrolled as a lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Lagos, Akoka. His teaching methods endeared him to his engineering students, whose public chants: "Dead easy... Dead easy...", would often be heard shouted in his direction as he went along the campus grounds. He quickly rose in the ranks among his colleagues and would later become the Head of Department, Mechanical Engineering, University of Lagos.

Awojobi went back to London to study for his Doctorate. He returned in 1974 and was made an associate professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Lagos. However, one week after having been appointed associate professor, the University of Lagos Senate, after receiving news that Awojobi had just been awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (DSc), immediately appointed him professor in Mechanical Engineering, making him the youngest professor in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Lagos and the first ever to be expressly promoted from associate to full professorship within a week.

By nature, Ayodele Awojobi was a teacher. He imparted knowledge at various other levels, even as he contended with his day job as a full-time professor and university lecturer. He envisaged his country as a whole becoming more advanced, technologically – this was exemplified when he refused lucrative offers from commercial outfits for his Autonov 1 invention, he rather preferring to preserve his design for his country's future benefit.

He engaged with great educators of his, and earlier generations, such as the late nationalist and Yoruba leader, Obafemi Awolowo (who forwarded several of Ayodele's educational books), the late activist, social crusader and educator, Tai Solarin, and the once Lagos State governor, Lateef Kayode Jakande, who achieved free education at all educational levels in Lagos State, Nigeria. Jakande believed in Awolowo's visionary ideas about the way forward for the nation, particularly in Awolowo's resounding theme of qualitative and quantitative education across the nation, free of over-bearing school fees.

Ayodele Awojobi became, at one time, the chairman, Lagos State School's Management Board, out of his concern for ways to better improve the problems inherent in secondary school education in Lagos State, Nigeria. He desired that all his children go to public schools. The older ones all did. Such was his vision and hope that the country would some day attain equitable distribution in the quality of education cutting across different social strata. He authored several books for both the secondary and tertiary levels of education in Nigeria.

His natural propensity to inform, to educate, drove him to become, in the early 1970s, a quiz-master on national television. The quiz-show, Mastermind, consisted of weekly contestants taking turns in isolation on "the hot-seat", whereupon various categories of questions would be thrown at them. Otunba Gbenga Daniel, former governor of Ogun State, Nigeria, was a returning winner and champion on Mastermind for several episodes over; he being in his undergraduate years at the time.

I am sure most of you have not heard of this great man who successfully converted his own family car, an Opel Olympia Rekord, from right-hand drive to a left-hand drive. And went on to invent a second steering-wheel mechanism, adjoined to the pre-existing engine at the rear end, so that the vehicle was able to move in both forward and backward directions with all four pre-existing gears. This gave the hybrid vehicle, which he christened Autonov 1, the ability to achieve its highest speeds at a moment's notice, in the normal reverse direction.


Early Life
Born in Oshodi, Lagos State, Awojobi's father, Chief Daniel Adekoya Awojobi, was a stationmaster at the Nigerian Railway Corporation who hailed from Ikorodu in Lagos State. His mother, Comfort Bamidele Awojobi (née Adetunji), was a petty trader who hailed from Modakeke, Ile-Ife, Osun State. Between 1942 and 1947, he attended St. Peter's Primary School, Faji, Lagos.

It was while at his secondary school, the CMS Grammar School, Lagos, that his academic traits began to manifest. Not only was he seen to be gifted in mathematics and the sciences, he was comfortable also in the arts, becoming a member of the school's literary and debating society. It was during this period that he earned the nickname, "Macbeth": William Shakespeare's famous play, Macbeth, was to be staged in the school. The lead actor took ill a week before, and so Ayodele was called upon to play the lead role in his stead. It is said that not only did Ayodele master his lines as lead actor, but also the entire play, such that he was able to prompt the cast whenever they forgot their lines.

Ayodele was a straight-A's secondary school student, while at the CMS Grammar school, passing his West African School Certificate examinations with a record eight distinctions in 1955. He proceeded to the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Ibadan, for his General Certificate of Examinations, GCE (Advanced Level), where in 1958 he sat for, and obtained distinctions in all his papers: Physics, Pure Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. In 1962 Awojobi was awarded his first degree in Mechanical Engineering – a BSc (Eng) London, with first class honours, at the then Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Zaria (now Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria).

It was said by Akintola Ajai (himself an engineering graduate of the University of London), that when Awojobi arrived at the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Zaria, he boasted openly saying that it was his intention to finish the whole course within a period of three years only; an impracticable feat due to the fact that nowhere was the BSc Mechanical Engineering curriculum designed to run less than four years. Ayodele accomplished it in three years just as he had predicted.

The federal government awarded Awojobi another scholarship in 1962 to study further at the post-graduate level in the field of Mechanical Engineering at the Imperial College of the University of London (now Imperial College London). He completed the course, successfully defending his thesis, and was awarded a PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 1966.

we live in a crazy society. come to think of it, if you appear like that to a Sterling bank interview that will pay you 40k monthly, you will definitely be denied the job because you look like a tout.

But funny enough here is a tout lookalike that has been paid millions to be part of the Sterling family.
And bright grad.uates will be at the mercy of barely 100k per month.

I have come to conclude that education is a scam in Nigeria.

Bro,
300k is just chicken change when compared to what you will make in months to come. Taking your own life is not a solution to your suffering, it compounds it.
Follow these 8 steps and everything will be fine
1. Stop gambling
2. Look at your loss as a destined event
3. Stop thinking of recovering from your loss instead look out for legit ways of making money
4. Pray to God
5. Meet your parents and ask them to bless you
6. Don't be lazy (Gambling is for lazy people)
7. Be smart with your work
8. Have full confidence in yourself that you will make it

Good day good people of Nigeria.

There has been physical war and social media unrest in times past on the this issue of BIAFRA. I looked at the whole scenarios and concluded that there was truly no need for all these brouhaha. Before I start to share my thoughts on this topic, let me state that I am from the Yoruba extraction and I do not have affiliation with the aforementioned group of agitators.

Firstly, let me take us down memory lane before the civil war, the existence of Nigeria came as result of British insensitivity to the issue of ethnicity and language. They merged everyone together on paper without actually doing the necessary field work and sample peoples' opinion. Just like other African nations, our problem as a nation started right afterwards. People of different beliefs, practices and mentality were forced to live together. Just like the proverbial cat and dog that can never live together. We were put in a mess that was a board game to the British. Even God almighty understand that if humans have the same language they can develop and achieve anything, take a cue from the Tower of Babel: also look at the powerful nations of the world, they have one language. In Africa, we have hundreds of languages joined together in a nation.

Secondly, when we look at the problem of Nigeria critically, it has always been tribal. When a president is from the south, the north will start agitation and vice versa for a northern president. There is this superiority mentality by some tribes over others that they must always rule. This, of course, will not go down well with other tribes. The issue of taking from the south to enrich the north without developing the south is a crime against those who own these resources.

Thirdly, I think the North have ruled this nation too much and they have caused so much harm to Nigeria than good. Look at their rate of development, it is very low and they are backwards in so many areas: healthcare, education etc. I can say boldly that they are the ones dragging Nigeria backwards.

Lastly, I think the only solution to this problem is dialogue. We are in an age were confrontation is no longer working; consultation does. We all know how many souls that have been wasted in this struggle and more will still be casualties if no action is taken.
Arresting or killing Nnamdi Kanu won't stop anything. Bear in mind that there is always a spirit behind every human action and as you know, spirits cannot be arrested nor killed. Infact, they multiply and spread like wildfire.

In conclusion, In as much as I support Buhari, I think he should invite Biafra for dialogue and negotiations. And let him call for referendum afterwards just like Britain did for Brexit and Ukraine for Crimea. We have nothing to lose if Biafra goes but I feel the north is just scared that they will be landlocked which is actually a nightmare for any country. As a matter of truth, I will prefer that Nigeria reset/split into Northern, Western and Eastern regions. Now, if any problem occurs after that, you will know that these are my people and they will find ways to amicably settle. If we say we will keep the cat and dog together to hope that one day they will be best of friends, then we are a joker.

cc: Seun , Lalasticlala

Feefeee:

Sigh. I wrote my test March 11 and I haven't done my AC too. Audit hasn't done any AC in recent times I think.

Audit and IARCS conducted an AC yesterday for those who wrote test May 6.

still available

Colour - Black Sapphire
Internal Memory - 32GB
Stylus Pen - Present

Fairly New Samsung Note 5 (USA used) with no scratch except for a slight single crack (barely noticeable) at the low left corner of the screen. Everything works perfectly and I am not selling with charger. Please contact me if you're serious about buying.

Price - 140k (Negotiable)

[color=#000099][/color]

airsaylongcon:


Neither. But my experience with computing graduate is that they think they are proficient in Excel until they get grilled

I am proficient in Excel VBA, Solver, Dashboard creation with dynamic charts. I can be of useful service to you. I can send some of my previous works.

A general manager in a place I once worked told us that before a company sell its spanner, wrench, furniture and other things; they will rather terminate someone's employment because men can be easily replaced not tools.
I was so sad on hearing that.

Baseline is always have a business to fall back on.

All the best bro

yindamola:

Thank you for doing this , much easier. Already gotten from your Drive. That's all the material right??

Yes and you're welcome

When I saw these consoles and television I can't help but look back in time when I played these games non stop (life was sweet then) and was flogged by mum when caught playing
That television senior me for like 10 years. It fell off the shelf one day (face down) and nothing happened to the screen (I was shocked). I tried putting it on recently, it drew so much electric power that all bulbs went off

Kawlingz:


Sent

Thanks bro. I have seen the files.

To relief the stress of sending to individuals I have uploaded the files to my Google Drive so people can download

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bw2KuZyut7Z1THdaTjFjRGd0SDA

More

I was at IBB road in Uyo today and I decided to take pictures of the flooded road. This road is adjacent to the state secretariat which means government officials and political office holders pass through everyday. It's an eyesore for such a beautiful city with no proper drainage system.

Try to be proficient in Aspen Hysys, Aspen Plus and Microsoft office suites ( Excel, Word, PowerPoint). These industry software will give you advantage.

It is a farly neat phone with few cosmetic damages on the screen glass but does not affect the LCD and touch functionalities. There are few wears on the sides due to use.
This Note uses a sim card and can be used to make calls.
Note 8.0 comes with a 4500mAh battery which last long with embedded 1.6gHz processor + 2 gig RAM + Stylus pen + 16 gig ROM.
I am selling with the original charger.
Only serious buyers should contact call me on or send me a PM here on nairaland
My location is Uyo and price is N26,000

mayorall:



Link is not real.

Thank you boss.

What about this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Huawei-Honor-V8-Dual-Sim-Active-64GB-Smartphone-Mobile-4G-LTE-Gray-VR-Cardboad-/252777881872?hash=item3adabc6110:g:S2oAAOSwCU1YqY0G

This is my first time here, please help check this out? Is it real? If yes how much is it to get 1 piece to Uyo? Thanks in anticipation.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Huawei-Mate-S-Octa-core-Fingerprint-LTE-Phone-5-5-FHD-Press-Touch-128GB-2-SIM-/172537055330

OlaNad:
Hello Benbella(Uche) Do you still have the bulk Palm oil for supply? We are interested in buying 2, 000mt per month for the duration of 6 months minimum etc if you are still in the business, kindly indicate so. Thanks!

I can supply you. Please drop your contact

I work for TestBirds GMBH, a product testing company based in Germany. You can Google up their name, they are reputable and pay in euros. I was directed to recruit product testers who fulfil the following criteria as indicated in their mail to me:

We have an upcoming project for people in Nigeria and are still missing some testers. And YOU could benefit from that!

The test is planned to start early next week (13th February 2017) and the payout will be 23 Euros (~7700 Naira).

The test can only happen if we have enough testers with iPhones and iPads (iOS 8 or newer) who use the Airtel network. Please tell all your friends who are on Airtel and have iOS devices to sign up as testers for Testbirds. This will help us provide everyone with more projects in the future and they can be among the first to get invited.

Please be aware that your friends really need to have an iOS 8 or newer device and an Airtel SIM card (dual SIM owners need to switch on Airtel), because without it the app won't work and unpaid participation is just a waste of your friend's and our time.

Your friends should use the following link to sign up:

https://nest.testbirds.com/register/?g=ef9681cf-a738-11e6-ae30-b8ca3a663104&utm_source=captains&utm_campaign=IntNest&utm_medium=TesterReferral

In addition to money, you will get Community Points. Even those who don't do the test. These points give you access to special jobs, Testbirds merchandise and, most importantly, better chances to get invited. Start collecting points now!

Thanks for supporting us and happy recruiting! We're looking forward to testing with you!

Oh!
I hope the agricultural prowess of the state will not be killed because of oil rush

dboss444:


Presently in IMO state palm kernel fruit has started coming out gradually. Waiting for prices to fall drastically for storage to begin by feb-march. If u want us to buy oil and store for you till prices climb very high indicate your interest.

Hello I have been following closely since 2016, I am interested.

missojugo:


A piture of your dad during his NYSC days and now....or i don't believe it

Send me your post office address and you will get it tomorrow

waluga:
na wa ooo hope na d same primary, secondary school and course of study yuh and ur old man read.....just asking though!!!

Just same uni and same nysc location posting

Futureleader201:


This is why I STRONGLY believe that things will never ever get better in Nigeria. Go and check, since you where born, people always say things will get better but rather than getting better it gets worse.

This country is cursed...... The blood of innocent children, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers etc killed during Biafra war is fighting against the country.

Don't mind those leaders. I strongly believe that there is still hope for Nigeria

Legend87:


Wow! So ur dad still has the cap? He was my platoon mate then..
Extend my greetings to him

I will pass your message on

yomi007k:



U no knw say Nigeria get money in 60s, 70s, 80s, no be like today. ..




I doubt if future generation go wear cap.



Dem go jus tie bandana.

Time flew, things changed, quality things have gone home.
Just going through my dad's stuffs and I saw his nysc cap. See quality material (cap + embroidered nysc emblem) against mine that was printed and is fading.