Idiat Amusu
Idiat Aderemi Amusu (born 27 November 1952, in Kano) is a Nigerian engineer. She is the first female agricultural engineer in Nigeria and the first female council member of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN). She was among the original founding members of the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN) in 1983.
Quotes
[edit]"Former APWEN President unveils strategy for affordable electricity generation" (2024)
[edit]- Agriculture engineer Idiat Amosu urges Nigeria to use natural resources to lower electricity costs and boost sustainability on April 25, 2024
- It is important for the country to focus on sustainability, which includes renewable energy that gives a sustainable source of power supply.
- If we can harness God given natural resources such as water, wind, steam turbines, fossil fuel, biomass, geothermal and solar energy source, among others, the cost of production of energy in the country would drop drastically.
- Talking about biogas, I think Nigeria is behind, because presently in Indian, they have so perfected it that one can buy plastic biogas generators at home and cook with it, power the house.
Interview with Engr. (Mrs.) Idiat Aderemi Amusu, founder of Project Skill Competition (2019)
[edit]- Q:: Education in Nigeria today is fast dropping in standards. How else can we harness the potential of the skilled child in Nigeria today?
A: We can organize programs to discover them as the Project Skill Competition organized here today. Our sole aim should be on how to encourage these children to discover their environment and proffer solution. - Q: How is the Nigerian technical sector working to enact laws to prioritize the education of the underprivileged children?
A: Teachers are encouraged to put in their best. These would ultimately provide a cheaper and qualitative education. Notwithstanding, we would look into ways to ensure that children who are very bright but underprivileged go to school.
"60 million Nigerians go to bed hungry" (2015)
[edit]- Idiat Amusu, Head of Food and Agricultural Technology, said this during her lecture on “Reverse Engineering” at the college’s eighth inaugural lecture on April 30, 2015
- Today, the issue of food insecurity worldwide is at a critical stage. All of us cannot deny that it is a tragedy of today that one billion people go to bed hungry everyday with a no better tomorrow.
- That is to say that every day, about 60 million Nigerians go to bed hungry, this should challenge us as well as touch us deeply.
- Nigeria must increase food production through the development of relevant machinery and equipment to process and produce more food.
- Food insecurity is a major concern to majority of the developing world.
