150 Benue students in Adamawa varsity whereabouts unknown

Over 150 Benue State indigenes, schooling in Adamawa State University, Mubi, are missing, The PUNCH has gathered.
Seventeen out of the over 200 of the students were rescued and conveyed to Makurdi, the state capital on Friday night.
The distressed students, who spoke to our correspondent on Friday might at the Makurdi State Government House, where they were lodged, said they escaped the attack on Mubi through “divine intervention”.
One of them, who identified himself as Terna, a 200 Level Business Administration student, said they spent two nights in the bush while trying to find their way to Maiha Local Government Area, the closest area to Mubi.
According to him, the fleeing students were in company with some military officers, who were also on the run during the escape to Maiha.
He said, “Only God knows how many kilometers we walked through the bush and mountains in two days.
“We had to leave some of our school mates in Katsina Ala Local Government Area for treatment while some of us were brought in here.”
While appreciating the state government, he appealled to the state government that a search party be constituted to get the other missing students.
He said, “Frankly speaking, we are over 200 from Benue State in that university and as you can see, we are just 17 here with few other weak ones in the hospital receiving treatment and I appeal that a search party be urgently instituted to know the whereabouts of the others.

Team UNIBEN wins international award for vehicle innovation

Students of Faculty of Engineering, University of Benin, called Team UNIBEN, broke grounds in an international competition – Shell Eco Marathon in Europe and South Africa in Oct. 2014 and won a distinguishing award for ‘most innovative vehicle design’ throughout Africa with its made in Nigeria car called Ecocruise. Continue…

Shell Eco Marathon is a global competition that challanges students to build, test and drive fuel efficient vehicles. In other words, all the cars built are set to race and the vehicle that goes the farthest on the least amount of fuel automatically wins.

Team UNIBEN has previously also broken a record when they attended the Shell eco-marathon Europe in may 2014 with its first made in Nigeria car Tuketuke, making it the first team from Sub Saharan Africa to participate in the Shell eco-marathon. These two cars were handmade by these students alone in the workshop.
Tuketuke has innovative features like automatic windscreen wiper, button actuated gears, fingerprint access, ankara interior and fibreglass body. Both cars won all 10 technical and safety inspections, which I might add, are world standard, that qualified them to race on the track.
They are currently taking yet another challenge to build two cars that will participate in another shell eco-marathon in the Netherlands next year.
Students involved include: Osas Omijie, Festus ibidapo, adekola adeyemi, abdulmalik tajliad, Daniel okwoka, justice Oyemike, emmanuel Ajari, eloghosa iyamu, James itoro, Jennifer orji, Anne monye, Michael olukoya,and Victor adegboye, 13 students in total supervised by Professor Akii Ibhadode (Winner, NLNG Award for Science, 2010).

1-in-4 Nigerians at risk of hypertension- University of Edinburgh study

A research carried out in Nigeria by scientists from the University of Edinburgh, England, revealed that one in every four Nigerian is at risk of being diagnosed with high blood pressure.

High blood pressure – also known as hypertension – which can cause stroke, heart disease and kidney disease, is twice as high in Nigeria compared with other East African countries and very few are aware that they have the condition.

The study also revealed that the figure will sharply rise as more Nigerians continue to live like westerners lives until drastic measures are put in place.

There were more than 20 million cases of hypertension in Nigeria in 2010, affecting one-in-three men and one-in-four women and researchers predict a rise in figure to 39 million cases by 2030.

Their findings have been published in the “Journal of Hypertension” and it is the first up-to-date nationwide estimate showing how hypertension affects Nigerians at an alarming rate.