The Yobe State government has offered a 200 level Chemistry student of the Federal University of Gashua, Yobe State, Usman Dagona, employment into the state civil service for doing the state proud internationally.
Dagona, a National Certificate of Education (NCE) holder, had in November 2020, beat 1,749 others to emerge the winner of the Imagine National Chemistry Competition in Abuja.
He, however, came second to Prof. Adalet Adam of Turkey, when he represented Nigeria at the Imagine Chemistry International Akzo Nobel Competition 2020/2021 held in the Netherlands.
The recent achievement of Dagona,
whom his admirers called Yobe Tech Wizard, is when he invented a mini spying wireless car.
It was in recognition of this rare feat, that the Yobe state government offered him automatic employment into the civil service on GL 7 but has yet to offer him a scholarship as earlier promised.
The car is currently ranked third with 274 points on the voting scoreboard of the 2021 Create the Future Design Contest sponsored by COMSOL and Mouser Electronics.
Dagona, in an interview in Damaturu on Thursday August 12th 2021, said, “my robot spying car is a rechargeable normal wireless device with 5-6 microcontrollers.
“Besides recording audio and video, it also has internal memory for saving data. The car doesn’t operate using only hand controllers; it can move with the direction of my voice and orders,” he said.
Dagona said although the car could only recognize his voice at the moment, it could be enhanced and utilized by the intelligence community in the country.
“This robot spying car is a counterpart of my just concluded mini spying drone. The two devices can assist in providing efficient and accurate intelligence gathering,” he said.
