Nigeria is spending millions to put a man into space –
as Britain hands it more than £1billion in foreign aid.The oil-rich country, which has accepted £300million this year alone, has set in train ambitious plans to launch its own rockets.
And the first Nigerian astronauts are being trained to join Russian, Chinese or American missions within
the next two years. Last night critics asked why Britain was, in effect,subsidising a space programme for a nation where 70 per cent of people live below the poverty line. This latest controversy came just two days after Ukip
MEP Godfrey Bloom ignited a fierce debate by saying
it was folly to give billions in aid to ‘Bongo Bongo
land’.
Yesterday David Cameron said the
remarks were offensive and
accused Mr Bloom of being guilty of
a ‘stop the world I want to get off’
approach to foreign aid.
The £1.14billion Nigeria will receive
over the five years of the Coalition is double the £500million set aside to prop up struggling accident and emergency departments at our own hospitals.Backbench Tory MP Philip Davies said it was ‘totally unjustifiable and unaffordable’ for Britain to give this money to Nigeria, given the scale of its ‘grandiose’ space programme.'We cannot go around the world saying “don’t worry, we will feed your public for you while you waste your money on all sorts of other projects”,’ he said.
‘We have got to say to these countries “you have got to spend that money on your people where it’s most needed not on some grandiose space programme”.
We are against welfare dependency at home but at the same time we are encouraging welfare dependency abroad.’
The row surrounding Mr Bloom flared when he insisted that sending aid to Africa was tantamount to treason. He added: ‘How we can possibly be giving a billion
pounds a month, when we’re in this sort of debt, to Bongo Bongo land is completely beyond me.’
He claimed foreign leaders frittered the money away on ‘Ray-Ban sunglasses, apartments in Paris and
Ferraris’........ BUT THE QUESTION IS WHAT ARE THE THINGS THE FG IS SPENDING ALL THIS AIDS MONEY ON?
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2387338/As-Cameron-attacks-Bongo-Bongo-MEP--How-1billion-cash-used-help-Nigeria-join-space-race.html.

The Nigerian engineers responsible for the building of the Nigerian-made SAT-X were trained in the UK,and the satellite itself was built in the UK,so i believe most of the "aid" money is going back to the UK anyway.
And according to NARSDA, Nigeria will launch its own astronauts by 2015.
And there are the already reports of progress in indigenous rocket production.
So we should just wait and see by 2015 the dividends of all these.
Btw the £1billion over 5years is a subsidization of an already ongoing process kickstarted and majorly funded by the Nigerian govt.

LOL, mixed priorites.

Nigeria is spending millions to put a man into space

Millions or Billions?

2015 is by the corner. Lets wait n see