Nigeria: Uganda's New Car, The Nation's Challenge

16 December 2011
editorial

THE launching of an electric car that the students of Makerere University made has a ringing message for Nigeria on two fronts. The car - Kiira EV - will not run on petrol; it uses batteries and the university is not on strike, but runs its shoestring research budget well.

Founded in 1922 as a vocational college, Makerere became a university college in 1949 (the same year as University College Ibadan), University of East Africa in 1963 and then Makerere University in 1970 following the break up of the East African Union.

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