In our clime it is the political news of division, hatred and retrogress that sell and dominate our media and millions of our people have been conditioned to see life from that dangerous position and perspective. Many people would have come across this kind of news but it does interest them because it is not the news of APC and PDP. So many things need to change in our clime before this country can breakthrough.
Ahmadu Bello University students build 1-barrel-per-day oil refinery in Kaduna. This is one of the best news that usually excite and appeal to me than the news of looting and plundering that have become the mainstream media headlines and subject of discussion. I have been reading, working on and do a lot of discovery in the recent times over different news and stories of possibilities and exploits coming from our clime at the time we are being told by Donald Trump that we need second colonization and we have no intelligence for new things.
We need to do a little X-ray of this feat and extraordinary achievement. Two days ago i wrote a piece about two brothers from the same state who manufactured security vehicles, in that write up, i posed a challenge to the state Governor and Federal Government and here is another challenge for the government of our country, University Commission, Vice Chancellors and rector of various tertiary institutions across the country.
The achievement can be traced to the department of chemical engineering of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, and honestly it has made history. The students of the department built a refinery with a capacity to process one barrel of crude oil per day. The refinery would be used mainly for the training of students The department of chemical engineering of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, has built a refinery with a capacity to process one barrel of crude oil per day.
Since this technology advancement is designed now for training however I have confirmed from a source that the department had the manpower to build a refinery that would be bigger than that of Kaduna if it had government support. So what is our government waiting for? Waiting for advanced development countries to help us and transfer technology to us will not avail us or better still, it will make the condition worse than what is it. Firstly, we must take ownership of change and development we are yearning and desiring to see.
Government must as a matter of urgency and policy should begin to invest heavily on research, innovative and creative ventures. Having consider the project work under reviews, the initial idea and plans from the onset was to construct a 1,000 barrel-capacity refinery, but lack of funding limited it to this one, where they would now be refining one barrel per day.
Checking the make and the configuration of this refinery, it is going to amaze you that only the controls were sourced from Hong Kong. No expatriate was hired from abroad. All those that were engaged in this project are Nigerians. Therefore, this mini refinery is a product of Nigerian brains. If government can come in, to support academic research, innovative and creative education, redesign our curriculum to meet the demands of now, if we can review our methodology and delivery approach, this country has the ability to do wonderful things, not only refinery but other technical and technological developments .
To drive change and bring about a true development in any nation, practical, innovative, technical and purposeful education is very critical and there is no how we try to downgrade it, it is still one of the solution out of the quagmire and out of the woods. With purposeful living, thoughtful strategies and intelligent planning er can change the course of this country.
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Dotun George
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