Unilorin Set To Use Drones For Exam Monitoring And Surveillance
If the authorities of the University of
Ilorin accede to suggestions by
members of the institution’s Drone
Team, it is highly probable that the
University will, in future, monitor
examinations conducted within the
campus with drones.
The drones, developed by a team
coordinated by Prof. Sulyman
AbdulKareem of the Department of
Chemical Engineering, added colours
to the just concluded 40th
anniversary/31st convocation
ceremonies of the University.
Other members of the Unilorin
Drone Team include Dr. M.T. Yakubu
of the Department of Biochemistry;
Dr Babalola of the Department of
Physics; Engineer Eric and Mr.
Ahmed, both of the Department
Electrical and Electronics
Engineering.
In separate interviews with Unilorin
Bulletin last Thursday (November 12,
2015), the Co-ordinator of the team,
Prof. AbdulKareem, and another key
member of the team, Dr. Yakubu,
said that drones can be used to
monitor the conduct of examinations
in future as well as general campus
surveillance in conjunction with the
security personnel”.
According to Prof. AbdulKareem,
“the use of drones has come to stay
because where you don’t want to
endanger human life, a machine,
which a drone is, can go there and
still get the information you need”.
He pointed out that “drones, rather
than infringing on human rights,
actually protect human rights
because the man who wants to do
evil and knows that a machine can
remotely capture his act, will not
likely do it”.
The Unilorin Drone Team
Coordinator, who is the immediate
past Vice-Chancellor of Al-Hikmah
University, Ilorin, disclosed that
some academic departments in the
University have started showing
interest in the use of the drone. He
said, “I believe that apart from
giving practical knowledge to those
in Geography, Electrical Engineering
and Physics, virtually any
Department that may have a reason
to capture events beyond what is in
front of the camera, which has to be
aerially covered, can use the drone.”
Prof. AbdulKareem urged the
University administration to
challenge people to do more “because
there are lots of students who are
eager to learn and who have ideas
that they can put into practice if they
have good supervision. He said, “I
believe it is a matter of
encouragement. Most Nigerian
universities should be able to do
wonderful things and make major
breakthroughs”, noting that some
students were co-opted into the team
to learn how to operate or fly the
drones.
The Drone Team Coordinator
enjoined the newly appointed
ministers especially for the areas of
science and technology, “to see a
need for us to self-develop, self-
evolve, and self-emancipate as a
nation”.
He said, “For a long time now, we
have relied on personnel from
foreign countries to bail us out of
every technical problem we get into,
but the issue is that, we have so
many Nigerians that are trained
abroad that are here and even those
who have not left the country that
are equally talented that should be
encouraged to do wonderful things
for the nation.”
Prof. AbdulKareem maintained that
the new ministers “should see their
appointments as a chance of working
with the academics in the
educational institutions to promote
what will be good for the nation, to
make the nation as a whole self-
reliant on personnel that are
available locally.”
In the same vein, Dr. Yakubu said,
“We can also use the drone to
monitor what is happening on our
borders; we have a very vast amount
of land, and we can use it to track
activities that are going on there.
Invariably, we can use the drones to
cover the entire University and in
getting information to the
appropriate quarters. ”
Source: Unilorin.Edu
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