₦airaland Forum

By HELEN NIANIAS
Tuesday 02 June 2015

Despite being best known for making pop music, Akon's decided to give filling dancefloors a break in favour of bringing solar energy to people living in rural Africa.

The singer has decided to seriously diversify and set up charity Akon Lighting Africa in 2014.

The singer, who is of Senegalese-American descent, has recently opened a Solar Academy as part of his effort to bring electricity to 600 million people in rural communities across Africa.

Located in Bamako, Mali, the academy's aim is to help engineers produce solar power.

The organisation states that the continent averages 320 days of sunshine a year.

Samba Baithily, who co-founded Akon Lighting Africa with Akon and Thione Niang, told Reuters:
"We have the sun and innovative technologies to bring electricity to homes and communities. We now need to consolidate African expertise."

"We expect the Africans who graduate from this center to devise new, innovative, technical solutions," said Niang.

"With this Academy, we can capitalize on Akon Lighting Africa and go further."

So think about that next time 'Locked Up' comes on.

www.independent.co.uk/news/people/akon-is-bringing-electricity-to-600-million-people-in-africa-10291826.html

slam7000:
They are messed up in the head big time.

That's how slaves lost their identities. Today you will hear names like Shaniqua, shaneeqa, taniqua, Taneequa, it's like a Scottish answering Nakata instead of Scott or McQueen.

People are losing it slowly.

I was suprised when I was scrolling I couldn't get to see a native name like kemi,chidinma,babayaro,obong

Kizmarty:
ahba! has it gotten to this

The comment made me have a bad bladder now I'm so pissed. Dem just dey name pikin names wey go make pikin swear for them when dem grow.

We have brilliant american-nigerians who still retain their names and they still making money n repping, e.g wale

This hoes just want to be like them and even die like them!

I could recall my chapel pastor in those days naming his two children praise and worship

oseod:
Women!! On your marks! Set!! Oya run from this guy!!!!!!! Jst keep runnin and don't look back!!! Don't say I didn't warn u oo!!
..........unless he has money sha, then you're allowed to moonwalk. Or *moonrun* depending on the size of his pocket

Bros over hoes.but wait, shey I no talk am well?

Bro everyone that cheat can't giv u a reason,is just a natural gene,we only trying to cage ourselves by whitemen format,men are naturally polygamous dont let us deceive oursef with lawful marriage,me nofit do legal marriage,even th days of bible dem dey do polygamy,our past elders praticed it,is evident in our environ-population.ladies are more than men according to population,even d bible make us know in isaiah that it will later be 7women to 1man this proves polygamy is d future,we man we also can't explain why we do it,its a reflex action, the best thing these ladies need to realise is,catchup with reality to know they need to accomodate other female and agree polygamy is here to stay,just my side of this whole thing

Chinaimporter:
[size=14pt]This is an abomination that must not be condoned.this is part of illuminatis plan to turn everyone gay.
Cant you see that his dressing is demonic, he is attracting the attention on men lovers to himself so that he
Can steal their destiny and turn it into money...people that have choosen the side of the devil on the last fight.

Deuteronomy 22:5
A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.[/size]

You are a really confused person! Are you not the same person abusing God on one thread like that? Now the same person quoting that exact bible he condemned! Be a man with balls don't go saying what will later hunt you fool

queenbesha:
The same ''Beast' that gives u constant air to breath
The same 'BEAST' that gave His only begotten son to die for your sins because of the unimaginable degree of love He has for you

You get time ooo,Next time ignore such people,how do you engage a confused person? He knows the truth,his fighting it

stevebent:
The federal school of surveying is located in oyo

I don't need a school right now,I need the vocational aspect

Welrez:
I've not tasted real love, but I thirst for it now.

Me I've not even date one,I just go with friends with benefit things,I don't blv in commitment,I see am as wahala,inshort I'm not ready for responsibility for once.

Sincerely I want to puke! They look like goblins

Since say I be yoruba will like to learn hausa

where can I get to learn land surveying and draughting in ibadan?

I want to start the training by 1st week in june,but really not familiar with the environ,anyone should direct me to one.

where can I get to learn land surveying and draughting in ibadan?

I want to start the training by 1st week in june,but really not familiar with the environ,anyone should direct me to one.

pri3stess:
Of course now. Chinese people are not savages, unlike Nigerians.

Did you miss your period or you having hot flashes?

Every country has where they are being savages also.

Naija is hard,you shouldn't make it harder for people with your obnoxious comment.

Have a great time.

nickibarb:
one more thing. i won't really say an average of once a month though. cos for like the first 3 months after the baby was born, none of us made a move. i felt like i wanted to get my body back to what i would be comfortable with and hubby didn't also make a move.he was very hands-on with taking care of our first child while i nursed baby no 2 so sex was kind of put at the backseat. right after i got my contraceptive in place, the sexing started.

You trying to avert any menace evil before they come creeping,relax madam, your home will hold stronger than you imagine.

Do have a fun filled marriage.

KwachImani:
Oh please!....why lump the rest of us in your failures?.....if one out of 50 something fail in Africa or Caribbean doesn't mean there are no any black successful nations!
Botswana is well run and so is Bahamas....Kenya with zero natural resources is trying,this is Nigerian failure....period!
And for the rest of you, stop buying into the racism of these few white trash!
African countries are very very young......youngest being South Sudan at maybe 2-5 years, they on the other hand lived primitively too dying from BUBONIC PLAGUES and MURDERING EACH OTHER/NAZIS IN MILLIONS E.T.C
Not forgetting they are hundreds of years now yet still as racist as their Neanderthal parents that never left their caves/rocks.
All said,Nigeria should get its shit together.........you have excuse, with trillions of cubic meters of gas and oil and millions of people.
I would excuse , Central African Republic for example and not you Nigerians for such(horrible state of affairs).

Keep fooling yourself! You can see the development really? You pathetic,you pathetic because you trying to single out yourself, you saw what they posted? "Africans" tell me where you country is,your country is sh1t if it aren't called a "first world country"

And the sickness infested everywhere,africans ever complacent,see this rubbish jackass forming posh for my front.

ehie:
When they are happy to remain semi literate, fill their minds with all sort of bigotry and tribalism, and refuse to use their brain for its given purpose,that is how they think

Sincerely I've given up on this cesspit longtime ago

ehie:
delusional f00L

I'm happy with this comment pelted at the insane guy, like seriously? How the fuc-k do some dick-riding nigerians think

They are just too complacent!

RaeMystix:
You need to go seek for spiritual help inorder to restore you sanity. It seems like you've been cursed, cos yourcomments are not of what a normal person would type. Pls ooooooooooooh. ...Take action as soon as possible.... Help restore your mental health.

Great

omogeyoyo:
Please where can I get this pills in lagos?

You don't need this,keep your head eye girl, you beautiful enough,work on your esteem

RaeMystix:
Maybe I might like Chelsea a little bit, now that the non chalant block head is no longer a a player for the club.

Eat a dick for all cfc cares!

lawanson44:
If it was Odetola, he will be termed a good man...

But since it is Ubah (An Igbo Man), he is looking for soft landing!

This is the reason why I insist that there should be nothing like "One Nigeria" and patriotism! No matter what you do as an igbo man which will positively impact on Nigerians as a whole (whether igbo, yoruba and hausa) you will never be appreciated. A very good case study is GEJ! But if you do it as a yoruba man, it will be overblown. What am I even saying?....A yoruba man would never do this kind of thing!

If you are here and say evil of Ubah and criticize him and the fuel crisis is alleviated in your area because of his kind gesture and you buy fuel with ease, may that particular fuel bring about your demise and catch fire which will burn you and disfigure you for life! Amen

Nawa ooooo! South-south people wey get oil are you cursing them too? Cause I know some south-south people will criticize him,so for them doing that make them durn too? Hmmmmm

Chinom:
You are a goddamned f00l. I refer you to my earlier post. The man has already done 5 years at Her Majesty's service in UK. A 5 year jail term is huge for a drug offence. In the USA, one could get as much as 20 years for 500gr of dope. Why should a Nigerian, living in Nigeria be subjected to that.
The judge who will handle the case must consider the Nigerian penal code for drug offenders. If Mr. Kashamu ever gets to the US, he will not come out alive considering the fact that they have made him the " Escobar " in the case.

I just came back from church, guess what? I prayed for you, happy sunday.

Chinom:
Na so una people ( Ndi Ofe..) be. If Mr. Kashumu was Igbo, with the kind of money he has, his foot soldiers ( oti mkpu) would block any NDLEA person from getting close to his house. There will 2 to 3 foot soldiers for 1 NDLEA officer.
And the case will be thrown into the dustbin by any Igbo judge at the Enugu high court. We never sell out our own to a foreigner.

You unredeemable chauvinist! So because na our pikin make he nogo serve his terms Dammmn! You people a cavemen

Chinom:
I do not support drug trafficking, but if Britain refused to extradite Mr. kashumu when USA requested for it, why should Nigeria, his own country, extradite him ? !!. Would USA send an American fraudster wanted in Nigeria to Nigeria to stand trial ?.

This is pure witch hunting. OBJ is a very wicked man. A typical, vengeful and back-stabbing Yoruba man.

This man has already served a 5 year jail term in UK for Christ sake. Leave him alone.

ogbeni no yarn that kain thing! Where he committed the atrocities should be where he should be jailed

We dey pray make corrupt pple die you dey yarn dust!

Odabi pe gbogbo yin gan ti e ti ya were papo!

Vado:
Has the usa ever extradicted one of their own to nigeria to face charges? Do we even have an extradiction pact with them? I think if he truly has a case to answer, he should be tried and jailed on our soil and not sent overseas just to please uncle sam.

Dude listen to yourself? He should be jailed here you said? Dammmmn this country is shitty,

The question is where did he committed the crime? He should be jailed wherever he committed the shiit!

Good riddance to bad rubbish.