This Nigerian engineer was so good Huddersfield University retained him for global projects

At only 30 years of age, Bello Sambo is being touted as arguably the first person to hold a Railway Research PhD in 21st century Nigeria.

An engineer from Katsina State, Bello Sambo was born in Kano but raised in Kaduna. He graduated from Zamani College in 2007, then proceeded to the Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus, from where he bagged first class BSc degree in Electrical Electronics.

In 2013 – 2014, he studied for (and graduated top of his class) a Master’s in Engineering Control Systems and Instrumentation at the University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom, and a PhD at the same university 2014 – 2019. He started work with the Institute of Railway Research (IRR) of the University of Huddersfield from 2018 to date.

Based on his stellar performance in his Master’s degree programme, he was advised and offered a tuition scholarship for his doctoral research programme at The Institute of Railway Research, University of Huddersfield.

At only 30 years of age, Bello Sambo is being touted as arguably the first person to hold a Railway Research PhD in 21st century Nigeria.

Expectedly, this has come with some prizes too.

“Due to long hours immersed behind the screen or publications, when it comes to my relationship with others, I think the inevitable traces of social anxiety, with little interest in frivolity (fashion, celebrity, entertainment) caused me to lose contact with most friends,” he said in an interview recently.

Challenges?

“The biggest challenge of being in such a specialist discipline is the ability to remain patient, work persistently hard to interlock the civil, electrical mechanical and computing aspects of my daily activities as a researcher. Of course, there is the constant race to meet project deadlines before time and below budget to keep clients happy,” he said.

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