Young Lawal exhibits passion, constructs aircraft model in Kaduna

Twenty-four-year-old Abdullahi Lawal is a Computer Science student at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. Young Lawal in an interview with Daily Trust YOUTHVILE said he has developed more passion for aerospace technology.

 

From his childhood, Lawal said he has engaged his mind, thinking about how air/space crafts are made and what makes them fly while humans cannot fly. In pursuance of his talent, he constructed some air and space crafts with technology that makes them lift up to certain height.

 

For the aircraft, he uses high speed DC motors and other electronic devices that control and enable it to fly while for the space craft, he uses a combination of chemicals to make it solid rocket fuel which enables it to obtain the thrust that lifts it up.

 

Lawal who was raised in Kaduna metropolis obtained a Diploma in Computer Science at Ameer Shehu Idris College of Advance Studies, Zaria before he was admitted into ABU for the same course.

Narrating how he started constructing prototypes, he said, “I started constructing prototypes of aircraft and space craft/shuttle since I was a little boy. The idea comes to me whenever I see an aircraft flying or when I watch TV programes with same feature; as such, I started imaging how it flies when humans who are smaller than its size can’t fly like birds. From then, I started thinking of how to build my own local craft at home,”

 

“I started by using local materials to build some of the small models of aircraft. Cardboard paper was one of my major materials for constructing craft due to its availability; I later started using Aluminium sheets which is also found locally,” he explained.

On his passion, Lawal said although he is studying Computer Science, his dream is to be a qualified Aerospace engineer. 

“My big dream in life is for Nigeria to be among the advanced technological countries in the world in the field of Aerospace engineering and Aviation and I have no doubt that the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari would have interest in nurturing our talents,” he said.

Like many other youth without sponsors, Lawal still hopes to contribute to the growth of the country through his talent. “I also want to use myself to prove to the world that we can do far better than what we are doing presently in terms of scientific and technological knowhow,” Lawal said.