Nigeria has taken serious steps to put
the country’s first man into space in
2015 with the assistance of the British
government.
The federal government, according to
dailymail.co.uk, has accepted
£300million this year alone to set in
train ambitious plans to launch the
country’s own rockets.
The medium said the first Nigerian
astronauts are being trained to join
Russian, Chinese or American
missions within the next two years.
Britain’s support for Nigeria’s space
initiative and other countries has been
criticised by its nationals, who said
that the Department for International
Development’s budget will rise by 35
per cent in real terms by 2015. They
said while aid costs are ballooning,
spending on the military, the police,
border control and care homes is
being slashed by the government.
Britain is also spending about
£280million a year on aid to India,
another country with its own space
programme.
Jonathan Isaby from the TaxPayers’
Alliance said: “When budgets are tight
both for families and the government
alike, people cannot understand why
ministers are sending more of our
hard-earned cash overseas.
Taxpayers find it especially
unacceptable when their money is
sent abroad as aid to developing
countries which then somehow find
sufficient cash to fund the likes of a
space programme.
“It is totally unacceptable that British
taxpayers’ money is effectively
subsidising Nigeria’s efforts to send an
astronaut into space”, he said.
Nigeria’s space programme started in
2003 but its first satellite lost power
and disappeared from orbit.
It now has three in space,
NigComSat-1R, NigeriaSat-2 and
Nigeria-Sat X, the first to be
constructed by Nigerian engineers.
Although Nigeria has bought its own
satellites and launched on Russian
rockets, the federal government has
built laboratories which it hopes will
produce its own space craft by 2028.




http://leadership.ng/news/100813/nigeria-moves-put-first-man-space-0

This is not a misplaced priority but a priority that is misplaced.

k2039: This is not a misplaced priority but a priority that is misplaced.

The "carrying people to space" may be somewhat misplaced but the indigenous devt of rockets is not.

Nigeria has taken serious steps to put
the country’s first man into space in
2015 with the assistance of the British
government.

This is a very blatant lie.

The nigerian witches and wizards flying at night aren't in space!

How about more Railtracks and Motorable Roads?let us learn to walk 'properly'before we sprint.

ZEN: How about more Railtracks and Motorable Roads?let us learn to walk 'properly'before we sprint.

But a kid (goat~pikin) can actually walk the day it was born, and within that same day, it will zoom-off!
Morale:
I think, safe for the corruption that has eaten the nation so badly, nigeria has got the resources (especially financial) to enable us 'walk properly' and, within a short possible timeframe, sprint as well.
Just my humble thought.

ZEN: How about more Railtracks and Motorable Roads?let us learn to walk 'properly'before we sprint.

just my tot exactly!

basic amenities FG havent provided yet tax payer's money is about missing tracks again into some virtual space.

what are the benefits of this venture?

what happened to out NG SAT 1 , SAT 2?

yea, kul to roll and ball with the bigger boys, but please put your house in order first.

a man whose house is on fire does not go chasing crickets!

They keep drying up the nation in their bid to destabilise the economy and frustrate the masses, As usual what they are not telling us is what this is costing the Nigerian side.
We are not fools because we know that no Brit in his right mind, in this recession will fork out that amount for something as fantastical as putting a Nigerian and not even his national in space.
Nigerians never ask questions and they count on this to play their tricks, if you really enquire in the nature of this 300 million you will be disappointed to see a small phrase like "technical transfer" or "training" and the untold hundreds of billions Nigeria will be putting into it will be going to them as well.
these nations just make sure we africans will never have enough money from our oil procedss to do anything good in our country.

The world will end faster than its time if naija man enter space oo. Corruption go enter space, everything in the planet will change. The entire universe go know say naija man enter space.

The sun and the moon go begin take bribe to show face.

mekaboy: The world will end faster than its time if naija man enter space oo. Corruption go enter space, everything in the planet will change. The entire universe go know say naija man enter space.

The sun and the moon go begin take bribe to show face.

yeah right.
Because Nigeria is more corrupt than russia,america and the chinese.

What are they going to look for in space?
A satellite in space is good but why put a man there? Why cant they just pay the russians, brits or americans to do it?
£300 million is not beans o!