COMPUTERS from Aberystwyth have found new life in a Nigerian college.

Staff at the Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology in Jos were facing the prospect of expanding their recently launched computer degree without enough computers for their students.

Their plight was brought to the attention of the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth by PhD student Edore Akpokodje.

Edore was head of the Nigerian college’s computing department before coming to study in Wales.

As a result, 60 reconditioned computers powerful enough to run the software needed on the course have been shipped to Nigeria’s­ commercial capital, Lagos­.

They were due to arrive there on Saturday, 3 December.

Edore said: “This donation of computers by the Aberystwyth University computer science department which was facilitated by Prof Chris Price has come as a very big relief to my college back in Nigeria.

“We were faced with the prospect of not having enough facilities for the newly mounted program. It will go a long way in strengthening our infrastructural base and I hope that this will be the beginning of a long and fruitful collaboration between our two higher institutions.

“I sincerely thank Dave Price (director of Infrastructure, IMPACS), Sandy Spence and some of my PhD colleagues at Aber CompSci for all their help.”

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