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Nigeria: Students to Invent Solar Powered Car, Mobile Phone

20 February 2011

Some students of St Louis secondary, Bompai, Kano yesterday, expressed their desires to invent solar powered car and mobile phone in the country.

The students spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano at a funfair organised as part of the activities to mark the Diamond Jubilee of the school, which was established in 1951.

NAN reports that a group of five students had built a miniature prototype of solar powered drier, electricity house and electric board game for exhibition.

Ummusalma Salma, a JSS 2 student said she would be the first female scientist in Nigeria who would invent a solar powered car. Salma said fueling a car with petrol could be expensive for some car owners, adding that the innovation would help to allay fears of people who queue in the filling stations.

Mauren Tarbo, also a JSS 2 student said she would develop a solar powered mobile phone that would be charged with solar energy.

Tarbo said that Nigeria, blessed with abundant sunlight, has not been utilising the resource very well due to dearth of scientists to research in the area.

“Also, we don’t have constant electricity to charge our phones, so with solar powered mobile phone there is no need for electricity to charge it again,” she said.

Sheila Akpaso, a JSS 2 student, who also wants to be a scientist, said her dream to invent a flying house was to solve the problem of accommodation.

They, however, called on the Federal Government to provide enabling environment for them to actualise their dreams.NAN

“The flying house will have control room like an aircraft so you can take it anywhere you go or when you travel outside your residence, you have your house with you. So, when you travel to anywhere, you will not be thinking of paying for accommodation. You will have a flying house that is convenient, conducive and comfortable.”


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