Talented Nigerian Lecturer Develops Device to Charge Phones from gas cooker heat

The device was presented at the two-day Regional Roundtable with Academia, Industry and other Stakeholders, organised by the Nigerian Communications Commission in Kano, by the Dr Cyprian Mgbachi of the Enugu State University of Technology.

Mgbachi, who practically demonstrated the device before participants at the roundtable, said the objective of the project is to design and develop a device that has the capacity of harvesting and converting cooking heat into electrical energy to charge cell phones.

The Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission, Professor Umar Danbatta, during an interview with newsmen on Friday disclosed that the Commission was in the process of commercializing the research prototypes, towards achieving high quality and effective telecommunications service delivery.

Already, he disclosed that the Commission has begun the screening and evaluation of 10 prototypes toward adopting some of the viable ones, so as to add more value to the Telecommunications industry toward the provision of high quality services.

In his remarks at the Regional Round table with Academia, Industry and other Stakeholders, with the theme: ‘The path from innovative Research to Commercialization of viable Prototypes’, Danbatta explained that the round table engagement, with the Academia, telecommunications industry stakeholders and other critical stakeholders, including consumers, was ostensibly aimed at charting the way forward for the commercialization of research output, sponsored by the NCC in the Nigeria University system.

According to him, the idea of the project, which the commission has already invested N500 million, is on how to commercialize the prototypes, 10 of them, so as to be deployed upon commercialization to improve the delivery of quality Telecommunications services.