The 70-year-old inventor, Engr Hadi Usman after bagging honourary doctorate at Gombe State University |
A Seventy-year-old man without formal education, Engineer Hadi Usman has bagged an Honorary doctorate degree for his witty inventions in academia including a fuelless generator, a stove that operates on water, and a Vespa engine helicopter.
Engr Usman bagged the honourary doctorate in Science from
Gombe State University, a development that has generated commendations among
Nigerians on social media.
According to the Senior Special Assistant on Media to Gombe
State Governor, Safianu Danladi Maringa, the inventor was awarded the degree at
the just concluded 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th combined convocation of Gombe
State University.
It should be noted that Usman who lectures at the Gombe
State University, did not have a Western Education, but also invented a radio
station, a radio transmitter, and a handset.
The talented inventor hails from Jekadafari Ward of Gombe
local government area, said in a recent interview that he has been inventing
for over 50 years.
He said, “I received education, but not Western education. I
received an education in Qur’anic Studies. Afterward, I was sent to a village
in Borno for further studies, completed the programme and graduated when I was
12 years old, and thereafter came back home and performed the ceremony.
“I have been inventing things since 1971, and I have 78
inventions. However, none of my inventions took so much time for research like
the construction of the stove that uses water to produce heat energy. I spent
three years on that research and I wondered why there was no lightning and
thunder in the dry season.”
It should be stated that Nigeria has been endowed recently
with talented inventors with gadgets to help people including a 30-year-old
Chemistry graduate, Yusuf Shamsudeen.
Shamsudeen, who graduated from Kano State University of
Science and Technology, KUST, Wudil, invented the water-powered stove.
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