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A remarkable Nigerian engineer recently broke a record that had stood for 50 years and became the first African to receive a first-class degree from a Japanese university.
Ufot Ekong, a male, earned a first-class degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Tokai University in Japan.
Along with his PhD in power electronics and motor drives, Ufot Ekong also holds a Master of Engineering (M.engr.) in electrical and electronic engineering.
He received both of these degrees from Tokai University, where he achieved the best grade in the school's 81-year history.
Ekong currently manufactures automobiles for Nissan and has two items with patents, one of which is an electric vehicle he developed.
The interesting thing about the genius is that he solved a mathematical equation that couldn’t be solved for 30 years in his first semester at Tokai University, Japan.
“It is an electrical problem involving mathematics and my entire research team is not allowed to discuss details of academic research, patents, and trade secrets as it regards electric vehicles. We are constrained by a confidentiality agreement not to discuss such projects,” Ekong told the Youth Alive Foundation.
Ufot Ekong, who is originally from the Nigerian state of Akwa Ibom, is a multi-lingual, he speaks English, Japanese, French, Yoruba, and Ibibio fluently.
He joins the likes of Prof Wole Soyinka, Adebayo Ogunlesi, Bennet Omalu and a host of others who have gone on to shake the world with their excellence in academics, innovation, tech and the likes.
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