Kwara electrical engineers set to provide solar-powered lights in rural communities

Date: 2023-08-21

The Kwara state chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (NIEEE) has said that it has concluded a plan to provide solar-powered lights in some communities that have never had electricity in the state.

Speaking after his inauguration as the state chairman of the NIEEE in Ilorin at the weekend, Mr Femi Abidoye of Femtech Technology said that the project is part of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of the organisation and would be provided in three different locations in the three senatorial districts of the state.

“As we make efforts to get better and improve ourselves, we find it necessary to extend a hand of support to communities without electricity.

The sustainable development goal, SDG number 7, calls for affordable, reliable, and clean energy for all by the year 2030.

Unfortunately, there are some communities around us that have never had access to a power supply. Some villages are still far from the grid, with distant hopes.

We plan to raise funding to support these communities with some solar-powered lighting units installed in common places like markets and village squares to make life easier for them”, he said.

Abidoye also disclosed the plan of the organisation to launch a sustainable endowment fund that will provide prizes to the best-graduating students in Electrical Engineering departments across tertiary institutions in Kwara State, saying that “We want to encourage and reward excellence among our young scholars”.

He then called for the support of members in order to achieve the set programmes, adding that “we can improve the engineering profession for our common good and also do well for society”.

In his lecture delivered at the event, titled, ENGINEERING A SAFER WORLD: ROLE OF ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS IN NIGERIA, Engineer Professor Y. A. Adediran of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Ilorin, said that an engineering product will one day fail, but how long it takes to fail depends on so many factors, most of which are probabilistic.

However, what is paramount is the safety of the product for both the user and the environment during usage”.

The University Don said that safety is a critical engineering ethic, and the cause(s) of failure of an engineering product can be hardware-related, software-related, or human interface-related.

Professor Adediran also said that engineering professionals such as Technicians, Technologists, and Engineers have some roles to play in ensuring that engineering products are safe, particularly for consumers or users.

“These roles include upholding professional ethics at all times, ensuring products are tested during each stage of the production process, creating awareness on reliability, availability, and maintainability issues in the workforce, providing meaningful engineering education right from the secondary school level, revitalising Nigeria's Industrial policy, and realising the importance of human intervention and any issues involved”.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

3MTT     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Tanke     Salman Jawondo     TETFUND     Kwara Poly     Joseph Offorjama     Ishaq Oloyede     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Code Of Conduct     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Share     Saad Omo\'ya     20 Billion Bond     Omoniyi     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Ahmad Ali     Sarakite     Aliyu Umar     Olusegun Adeniyi     Ayegbeni     Bayo Ajia     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Ilorin Innovation Hub     Benin Republic     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Elewu     CELF     Kwara State Football Association     Lola Olabayo     Ilorin Central Mosque     Charles Ibitoye     Olabanji Orilonishe     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     ER-KANG     Moses Rahman Popoola     Gobir     Sa\'adu Gambari     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Idi-Ape     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Bolaji Aladie     Jaigbade Alao     Afonja     Onilorin     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Sobi Hill     Patigi Regatta     Garba Ado Sanni     Ashiru     Justina Oha     Oluranti Idowu     Aiyedun     Kwara 2015     Sobi     Dairo Kunle Paul     Bahago     Kolade Solagberu     Kunbi Titiloye     Naira Redesign     Olatunji Moronfoye     Abubakar Aliagan     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Ita-Nmo Market     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Ladi Hassan     Gabriel Fashanu     Binta Abubakar Mora     Omar Gambari     Modupe Oluwole     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Jamiu Oyawoye     Kolawole Bashirat     Saidu Kawu    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Monkey Pox     Mahe Abdulkadir     Bond     Oye Tinuoye     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Damilola Yusuf     Moses Salami     UNILORIN Alumni     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Harmony Holdings     Yeketi     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Islamic Development Bank     Wahab Abayawo     Bursary     Oniwa     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Ekweremadu     Hussein Oloyede     Law School Scholarship     Shettima Of Ilorin     Temi Kolawole     N-Power     AGM Professional Services     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     Isaac Gbenle     JAAC     Alao Ayotunde     Adegoke Bamidele     Boko Haram     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Computer Based Test     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Justina Oha     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Elesie Of Esie     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Valsolar     Ilorin General Hospital     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Peter Amogbonjaye     Twitter     Nagode     Iliasu     Ilofa     Oyawoye     Olatomiwa Williams     Magaji Erubu     Isiaka Alikinla     Saheed Akinwumi     Inside Kwara     Ajeigbe     Oyedepo     Doyin Agbamu     Ahmed Dankaya     Undergraduate Bursary     Aiyedun     Bello John Olanrewaju     Kwara State Polytechnic     Bola Sagaya     REO CAKES     Kayode Laro     Ojo Fadumila     Eleyele     Ibrahim Abiodun     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Alagbado     Umar Saro     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Oloye     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     KWSUED     Muhammad Yahya     Al-Hikmah Radio     MAI Akande