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World Technology: What my eyes saw in
Dubai, my mouth cannot say – Hon. Dan Majang
By Dickson Gupiya
October 23, 2018
The
Plateau State Commissioner of Science and Technology, Hon. Dan Majang has
lamented the way and manner Nigerians are fight and kill themselves over
mundane issues while people in other climes are using their talents to conquer
the world.
Dan
Majang made this statement today in his office when speaking with African Drum after his return from
official assignment in Dubai where he attended the GITEX exhibition by
investors and innovators.
According
to the commissioner, the event was meant for people across the world to show
case the technology they were incubating adding that what his eyes saw in
Dubai, his mouth could not say. “It’s like fast forwarding and brings the
future to today.
“We
saw innovations upon innovations, prototypes of things that were going to be
launched in 2019 and 2020. We saw flying cars, we saw aero plane that would
carry cargo. It will be launch in 2020 and what they are doing is to shorten
the speed. For instance, a journey that would take Boeing 707 three hours would
take the new aero plane just 10 minutes. We saw driverless cars, we saw
driverless underground train.
“We
saw holograms which you can programme the speeches of somebody who is already
dead and then you programme it and you bring him back to life.
“People
have conquered poverty, people have conquered lack of food, and people have
conquered religion.
We
have been left behind fighting over mundane issues. We are fighting over
religion. We have been fighting over denominations. We are fighting ourselves
while people in other climes are moving ahead to meet with God”.
Dan
Majang stated that the National Information Technology Development centre
sponsored start-ups from Nigeria to Dubai to show case what they have been
doing stressing that what they did was amazing. He said a young Nigerian made
drone that travels about 100km to transport blood to hospitals in rural areas
where they are no access roads. The Commissioner added that another Nigerian
made wireless power Bank that can just be put under furniture
and that another lady from Lagos uses power bikes to transport people and has
quite a number of them.
He
however, lamented again that the unfortunate thing was lack of sponsorship from
government.
On
the Jethropher Plant that was said to have been discovered in Northern parts of
Plateau State which was also said could be an alternative to oil, Dan Majang
said it was being incubated at the incubation centre in Jos. However, he said
the plant was for third world nations because since cars are electrically
driven now, nobody is talking about oil anymore. Despite that, he said that
other elements that can be extracted from the plant include, aviation fuel,
organize manufacturing of soap.
He
said that he state government gave a farm to a federal government agency,
called Nigerian National Development Agency so they can be able to research
more on the plant and that the ministry was concluding plans to give the agency
an office to serve the North-Central zone.
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