Jelani aliyu biography of williams

  • Aliyu was born in Kaduna in 1966 to parents who were originally from Sokoto city.
  • Aliyu was born in Kaduna in 1966 to parents, who were originally from Sokoto city.
  • In 1994, Jelani joined General Motors (GM) to work in a specialist team of car designers.

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    By Farooq A. Kperogi

    I just read the genuinely stirring story of an uncommonly talented U.S.-based Nigerian automotive designer by the name of Jelani (Zailani?) Aliyu, who is the lead designer of General Motors’ new, incredibly revolutionary, battery-powered electric car known as Chevy Volt that “can drive up to 40 miles [i.e., 64.4 kilometers] a day without a drop of gas.” (Gas is the American word for petrol).

    I first read about this amazingly inspirational and gifted man in an article titled “The Nigerian Who Designed an American Car”by one Michael Oluwagbemi in the Nigeriaillagesquare.com, perhaps the most popular discursive arena for Nigerians in cyberspace.

    What I read inspired me enough to compel me to suspend the continuation of the article I started last week and to pay a well-deserved tribute to this dazzlingly brilliant man whose admirable exploits in General Motors undoubtedly constitute one of the few luxuriantly blooming oases of hope i

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    Who Is Jelani Aliyu? Buhari’s Newly Appointed Head Of Automotive Council

    President Mohammadu Buhari may well have ignited stakeholders’ confidence in Nigeria’s automotive industry as he appointed renowned General Motors Senior Creative Designer  as the new Director General, National Automotive Design and Development Council, NADDC.

    Aliyu, who also designed the awe-inspiring Chevrolet volt replaces Engineer Aminu Jalal.

    But who is Jelani Aliyu?  Born in Kaduna in 1966 to Alhaji Aliya and Sharifiya Hauwa’u Aliyu who both hail from Sokoto State, Jelani Aliyu attended Capital School, Sokoto between 1971 and 1978, and then proceeded to Federal Government College, Sokoto, where he graduated with honours as ‘best technical drawing student.’

    He was later offered admission to study Architecture at the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria but declined the offer for a similar course at the Birnin Kebbi Polytechnic, Kebbi State from 1986 to 1988 – the institution that formally embedded in Jel

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    Jelani Aliyu is a United States-based Nigerian automotive designer, who designed the General Motors’ leading auto brand, Chevrolet Volt.

    Jelani Aliyu

    Alot of people may not know that a Nigerian actually designed Chevrolet Volt, a car described as the future of General Motors, the world’s biggest automaker based in the United States.  Who is then this genius? He is Jelani Aliyu, the man from Sokoto, who left Nigeria to become the General Motors Lead Exterior Designer. Jelani, who started off in Sokoto State, is now a world-class car designer. With focus and determination, Jelani said he was able to fulfil his dream, not minding the initial discouragement from people around him who felt he couldn’t go far in the industry.
    After his exemplary work, a night of honour was organised for him at Detroit by Nigerian Foundation of Michigan. At the event, the president, Nigerian Foundation of Michigan, Professor Chile Chukwu, described Jelani as “an embodiment