YOUNG OUTSTANDING NIGERIANS MAKING WAVES
A female Nigerian Law graduate, Fatima Bombom Sani made history by winning nine individual awards at the Nigerian Law School, thereby setting a new record and eclipsing the previous record of seven awards at the Nigerian Law School (NLS) in Lagos. The 26-year-old Kogi State beauty with brains graduated with first class honours at the Bar Final Examination of the NLS in 2015, and is from Adavi-Ege in Kogi State of Nigeria.
Image SourceHeeding the call for eco-friendly cars, a group of Mechanical Engineering students of the University of Lagos built an eco-friendly car called DOVE-P1, from locally sourced materials, powered by a high-voltage battery. The car does not use any fossil fuel, emits no gas and was accomplished as part of the initiative of ‘Designed for Zero Vehicle Emission’ (DOVE) Project in the University. Other brilliant Nigerian students from the University of Benin, as well as UniLag have also attempted such great innovations. It goes to show the level of ingenuity in Nigerians. If only massive support and partnership would be granted to such innovative minds in the country then perhaps, the next set of great inventors could emerge from Nigeria.
Image SourceEsther Okade is a 12 year old Nigerian-born British genius who made international waves in 2015 at age 10, when she enrolled into a University in the U.K. for a Mathematics Degree. She is set to graduate with a PhD by 2018. Esther is so brilliant that at age 6, she had already cleared her A-levels, despite the fact that she had not gone to school. Her mother Omonefe Okade, is a Mathematician who home-schools Esther and her younger brother, Isaiah, who is 6 years old and also studying for his A-levels. Strangely, Esther spends her leisure time the way girls her age do, by playing with her dolls and braiding looms.
Image SourceAnother amazing Nigerian, Ufot Ekong also reportedly broke a 50 year old record last achieved by a Nigerian in 1965, by graduating as the overall best student with a first class degree in Tokai University, Japan. In his first semester, he solved a math problem that was unsolved for 30 years. Ufot also won a Language award for the Japanese language, cementing his status as a multi-lingual Nigerian fluent in English, Yourba, French, Japanese and his native Akwa-Ibom dialect. Apart from studying, Ufot works with Nissan and recently developed an electric car with a speed of about 128km/hour.
Image SourceA Nigerian also achieved the feat of becoming the best doctorate student in the Tyne-side Newcastle University in England, after graduating with the highest grade. Dickson Ndukwe Agbai achieved the record after successfully defending his thesis on the potential of Biofuel in Nigeria. He is from Abia State, and joins the increasing number of outstanding Nigerians both at home and in the diaspora achieving great things and doing the nation proud.
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