Nigeria gets Africa’s first football pitch lit by players

Africa’s first football pitch lit solely by the players’ movements has been inaugurated in Lagos, at a ceremony attended by singer Akon.

The technology, invented by a young British engineer, consists of placing electronic tiles under the artificial turf, which is converted into power by kinetic energy

Each time a player steps on a tile, seven watts of electricity is generated and sent to a battery which in turn supply electricity to the pitch.