'Space flight' for Nigerian (from South East) girl
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5364722.stm

Space flight' for Nigerian girl
Stella
Stella is top of her class at physics and chemistry
A 17-year-old schoolgirl is to become the first Nigerian to experience a "space flight" when she takes off from the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday.

Stella Felix from the south-east was chosen from 400 Nigerian students who applied to go on a zero-gravity flight.

"I feel like an ambassador," she said before leaving Lagos for Florida. "I feel so happy to be the first."

She will fly at an altitude of 10km (6 miles) on G-Force One, before dropping, giving a minute of weightlessness.

These parabolic flights on board a Boeing 727 are used as a training exercise for astronauts - and have been given the nickname the "vomit comet". They do not leave the atmosphere but simulate the experience of being in space.

Stella is top of her school in science subjects. Her parents earn a living selling second hand clothes.

"I'll be looking up in the sky for her," her mother Eunice told AP news agency.

The trip is organised to coincide with the United Nations' Space Week.

"The goal of the programme is to use space to inspire education on a global basis while promoting international understanding among the youth," said Robert Boroffice, director general of the National Space Research and Development Agency.

In 2001, the Nigerian Government formally adopted a National Space Policy and launched its first satellite in 2003.

Wonderful !.

But this is no longer news. This happened in 2006

^^^ I was about saying that. In any case, @omongbatic, was her region of origin emphasised in the report? Why not also emphasised that her school was Moremi High School Ile-Ife. Osun State.

klas:

^^^ I was about saying that. In any case, @omongbatic, was her region of origin emphasised in the report? Why not also emphasised that her school was Moremi High School Ile-Ife. Osun State.

Well said! This guy is just trying to take the accommodating nature of people for granted

@ topic

Congratulations to the girl! Nice one!! Up Nigeria!!!

omonigbatic, you have started disgracing yourself again this year 2011

well just shows how an igbo girl can go to the south west and achieve something in life instead of looking at it form an ethnic lens look at it as a nigerian

was she not schooled in the south west of nigeria,,,, if she was still in south-east do u think she will have achieve that

my igbo brother, you have started againoooooooo

klas:

^^^ I was about saying that. In any case, @omongbatic, was her region of origin emphasised in the report? Why not also emphasised that her school was Moremi High School Ile-Ife. Osun State.

Yes it was. Can you read?

Stella Felix from the south-east was chosen from 400 Nigerian students who applied to go on a zero-gravity flight.

This thread was created to demonstrate to fstranger that Igbos are always one step ahead. He wanted to show Yoruba superiority here https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-578036.0.html and I beat him (as I always do) to it.

^^^

how was it not just a joke

do you know that blazay and me were there and we are not even yoruba