ABU Enactus team wins €1,500 at 2025 Schneider Battery Innovation contest in Lagos
Ahmadu Bello University’s Enactus team has won a grand prize of €1,500 after coming second at the just-concluded Schneider Battery Innovation competition.
The contest, ‘2025 Schneider Battery Innovation Challenge 2.0’, was organised at the Civic Centre, Lekki, Lagos on 2nd July, 2025.
The event, which featured five different teams at the grand finale, was jointly put together by Schneider Electric and Enactus Nigeria.
The ABU team won the prize on the strength of its unique and innovative battery management system integrated with artificial intelligence called ‘CELL METRIX’.
Cell metrix is a modular system designed to predict battery failures and downtimes.
This is in addition to taking proactive steps and measures in preventing the failures, thereby increasing battery life, efficiency and reducing downtime caused by thermal runoffs, insufficient charging, among other problems.
Cell metrix also combines the power of artificial intelligence in predictive analysis based on data analysis and securing patterns and it is a mix of both a hardware component and software tools.
The Faculty Advisor for ABU Enactus team, Prof M K Aliyu, described the innovation as a “timely solution to battery problems faced by many users in addition to offering a cost-effective solution to addressing the problems.”
“The story of Enactus ABU is one of the grit, perseverance, and teamwork, demonstrating the problem-solving prowess and creative thinking of the team in solving real-world problems,” he said.
Prof Aliyu, who congratulated the seven-member student team led by Abdulmalik Yahaya of the Department of Botany on the feat achieved, explained that hard work and determination were a determining factor of success.
Joseph Sarwuan Tarkaa University, Benue State won a grand prize of €2,000 having come first in the competition, while Kaduna Polytechnic in Kaduna State received a €1,000 prize for coming third.
The six other students, who represented the university at the contest, were Daniel Chukwueloka (Department of Civil Law), Theophilus Benjamin (Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering), and Sherifideen Yusuf (Department of Computer Science).
They also included John Adeyemi (Department of Human Physiology), Maryam Yunus (Chemical Engineering), and Ramatu Idakwo (Department of Accounting).
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Public Affairs Directorate,
Office of the Vice Chancellor,
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (NAM)
Monday, 7th July, 2025
