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70 per cent of Nigerians live below the poverty line of £1.29 Yet our leaders think that going into space should be on critical path.




As Cameron attacks 'Bongo Bongo' MEP... How £1billion of your cash is being used to help Nigeria join the space race
Oil-rich country has accepted £300million in aid this year alone
Plans for Nigerian astronauts to join missions within next two years
But 70 per cent of the country live below the poverty line of £1.29 a day
Row ignited by UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom's 'Bongo Bongo land' comments
By Jack Doyle, Home Affairs Correspondent


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.
Space race: A Nigerian engineer at work on one of the country's satellites developed in a British laboratory
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.
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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’.
Big spending: Nigeria has already launched these surveillance rockets from Russia as part of its plans to join the space race
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’.
Poverty: Millions of Nigerians are living in poverty, despite the country earning huge profits from its oil deposits
Resources: Nigeria generates millions in oil revenue every year but much of the population lives in poverty
He was widely criticised for using the term ‘Bongo Bongo land’ but many commentators believe he was right about the building resentment over spiralling foreign aid.
The Department for International Development’s budget is rising by 35 per cent in real terms by 2015. But while aid costs are ballooning, spending on the military, the police, border control and care homes is being slashed.
Britain is also spending about £280million a year on aid to India, another country with its own space programme. Despite Nigeria having the second-highest national income of all African countries, most of its people still live in poverty. It is also mired in corruption. The most modest estimates suggest between £2.5 and £5billion is stolen from the state’s coffers every year by corrupt officials and politicians.
Debate: UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom has reignited the issue of Britain's foreign aid contributions with his infamous 'bongo bongo land' comments
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 and 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.’
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 it has bought its own satellites and launched on Russian rockets, Nigeria has built laboratories which it hopes will produce its own space craft by 2028.
The National Space Research and Development Agency confirmed Nigerian astronauts should be trained and ready for space travel within two years.

In July this year, NASRDA’s director general, Professor Seidu Onailo Mohammed, declared: ‘By our road map we are supposed to have astronauts prepared by 2015. Before the end of the year, the recruitment of astronauts will begin so that we have them handy and as soon as we get the nod we can pick from that number.’

The Nigerian government has not released detailed figures on how much it is spending on its space programme, but it is thought to be hundreds of millions of pounds a year. British aid to Nigeria will increase by 116 per cent under the Coalition government, from £141million in 2010/11 to £305million in 2014/15. It amounts to a total of £1.14billion over five years.
Response: The Prime Minister David Cameron said Mr Bloom's remarks showed a 'stop the world I want to get off' approach to foreign aid
The country has also been criticised for failing to crack down on corruption. The only senior figure from Nigeria to have been prosecuted over corruption in recent years was jailed by a British court.
James Ibori, the former governor of the country’s oil-rich Delta state, was sentenced to 13 years for money laundering, forgery and fraud totalling nearly £50million. He used the money to live a lavish lifestyle, buying a house in London worth £2.25million and luxury cars worth over £650,000.
Last night a spokesman for the Department for International Development said spending aid money in Nigeria would help cut crime and illegal immigration in Britain.

‘No UK aid money goes through the Nigerian government,’ she said. ‘Our investment goes into specific health, education and poverty reduction programmes. Nigeria is home to a quarter of the poorest people in Africa, and supporting their development will benefit our own trade and security.’



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@Charlie
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Dr Ikechukwu Madubuike is a PhD holder not a medical doctor when he was minister of health.

@hardywaltz
How not to mess up a strong lady
There is no disputing in the fact that Professor Dora Akunyili performed creditably when she was in NAFDAC. When she was nominated for the office of Minister, all minds were set at her being either the Minister of Health or that of Environment. But that was not to be.

She was placed in a strange Ministry of Information and Communications; quite alien to her, you may say, or that she can best pass as being a round peg in a square hole.

Many people spoke against this placement, but President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua never listened. Professor Akunyili herself soon said that she was up to the task. This brings up the fact of a ministerial appointment which the late Gen. Sani Abacha made when he was the Head of State.

He had thought that since Ikechukwu Madubuike, then the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of Champion Newspapers, was being referred to as ‘Dr.,’ that he was a medical doctor, hence, he appointed him Minister of Health. Dr. Madubuike was quick (then) to say that he was accepting the appointment as what the Health ministry actually needed was an administrator and not a medical doctor. This was about the same way Akunyili put her present appointment as Minister for Information. I believe that she had started in her usual way of being very active. She visited the Government Printing Press and shouted that the place would be equipped with state-of-the-art machines shortly, but reviewing the budget, it was now discovered that the Government Printing Press had budgetary allocation of a meagre N20 million for the 2009 fiscal year.

Again, she has gone on to talk about re-branding Nigeria. The attacks on this have already made it look like a failed venture, just as she noted that Obasanjo’s administration spent over N1billion on the Heart of Africa Project with nothing to show for it. I believe that Prof. Akunyili is capable of delivering, but her capability should not be rubbished by the President, who had done his wife’s wish of according Professor Babatunde Osotimehin the position of Minister of Health.

- Fatima Jibril, Ibrahim Taiwo Street, Asokoro, Abuja


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Suddenly the architects(the British) of this project called Nigeria have realized that the project Nigeria is on the brink of precipice. Thus, coming out with this revelation.I encourage the children of those who in one way or the other participated in these looting to toe the line of Tobodo.

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I am a student doing MSc.Project Management in uk.

Am about to start My MSc Dissertation.

I would like you to assist me in selecting a topic from the followings:

1.Project Management:Technical expertise or process.

2.The strategic role of communication in a cross-cultural project team.

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4.The effect of risk analysis on the delivery of overseas development projects.

Thanks.

Dear all,

I am student doing MSc.Project Management in uk.

Am about to start My MSc Dissertation.

I would like you to assist me in selecting a topic from the followings:

1.Project Management:Technical expertise or process.

2.The strategic role of communication in a cross-cultural project team.

3.Critical success factors of international devepment project management.

4.The effect of risk analysis on the delivery of overseas development projects

just like idiamin did in his days.May God have mercy.

Going by the recent trend in the banking sector sanusi has made us to understand that the law permits him to remove CEO of banks for unethical management.my question now is this:who has power to remove Sanusi and Nigerian leaders who have used CBN as a tool in unethical management of Nigeria's resources?

Friends,its not about calling yaradua and his associates names, its about realizing that this project called Nigeria has failed.once a project fails what do you do?

There is nothing wrong with Nigeria 'only that we have failed to realize that this project called Nigeria has failed 'period.

Isn't it time the architects of this 'project' called NIGERIA realize that this project has failed or should we still believe that Nigeria is not a PROJECT but an EXPERIMENT?

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Msc International Project management in uk
Msc Petroluem technology in uk
Msc Energy and environmental management in uk
Msc Biotechnology in uk

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