Homemade Helicopters Hit Northern Nigeria

A 24 year old physics undergraduate in Nigeria has taken to building helicopters in his backyard from spare parts.  Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi takes pieces from cars and crashed planes and builds his own helicopters.  His hobby is financed by money he makes from computer and mobile phone repairs in addition to a donation made by his father who teaches at Bayero University.  Abdullahi hopes tha the Nigerian government would take notice and place orders with him rather than western manufacturers.  So far, government response to his chopper project has been underwhelming to say the least.

So I ask, where are the wealthy contributors?  Where is government interest?  In a country that is starving for economic growth, where is the love?  Mentality.  Few of those in some of the poorest countries realize what powers they actually have.  How can we change the mentality of an entire continent?