Seven final-year engineering students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University,
Awka, Anambra State, are presently trending online for designing and constructing a mini bus from scratch
with locally sourced materials.
The group, known as the Autozik Group, was made up of six males and a
female including Callistus Ezeigwe, Victor Obinani, Ifeanyi Ezeanolue,
Ogbu Ikenna, Fidelis Ominigbo, Nnamdi Nwobodo and Chinaza Okoro, was
supervised by the then Head of Mechanical Engineering Department, Dr.
C.H. Achebe.
female including Callistus Ezeigwe, Victor Obinani, Ifeanyi Ezeanolue,
Ogbu Ikenna, Fidelis Ominigbo, Nnamdi Nwobodo and Chinaza Okoro, was
supervised by the then Head of Mechanical Engineering Department, Dr.
C.H. Achebe.
“We made the mini bus using mere hand tools. This means we did all of
the constructions and folding, with our hands, since the university
could not provide us with ground equipment, as used in most automobile
companies,” said Ezeugwu.
The mini bus which took about five months to complete, has a beautiful
finishing so that people find it difficult to believe it was made in
Nigeria.