Mcreloaded:
I remember also Nigeria sent 2 satellite to space and am yet to see or hear the advantages of those satellite in space or how it affects the common man even if it is to make data cheap or to watch films via satellite.

Really there are other priorities that go ernmwnt should involve in to benefit the common man.

For the now the best we can do is copy and paste until we have solved power problem

The images/information from those satellites are used to predict rainfall/flooding patterns (albeit the warnings are hardly heeded on the ground by the states forewarned), and even high resolution soil type mapping to determine the suitability of crops/livestock for particular regions (and even the suitability of fertilizer applied). It can also be used to track population settlement, resettlement and/or growth patterns, and thus can be very useful for planning purposes (such as decisions regarding the location/prioritization of roads and other infrastructure).

Meanwhile, the telecommunications satellite not only saves Nigeria and Nigerian companies and organizations the millions of dollars expended on using foreign satellites, but also serves a wide range of ancillary functions such as providing GPS services to Nigerian airlines and such other entities. Finally, the knowledge acquired by Nigerian engineers and scientists in these ventures can be applied in other areas of national life.

Nothing is impossible. Today Nigeria manufacture cars, Kudos to Innosson.
So, lets wait and see....

kaen1317:
what is Nigeria looking for in space when the country itself is in shambles

Abi o? they should be researching on how to build lasting good roads and constant electricity, misplaced priorities.

Xander85:


I think this can prepare and inspire intelligent and passionate students to take the course and hopefully build on what they’ve learnt abroad! They could even go on a space mission some day!

EVILFOREST:
NIGERIA is cursed
Is this a POULTRY or What....
PEOPLE will be asked to submit CVs, just for salary emoluments, yet nothing to show for it.

Come back here after 6MONTHS and see BUSHES.
It will incidentally turn into an AGRO RESERVE CENTRE

The government can only build it, but it will require people (particularly the academic community) to breathe life into it. We cannot hold government solely accountable for all of our failings as a nation.

kaen1317:
what is Nigeria looking for in space when the country itself is in shambles

Be fair with words, ur life is is shambles and not the country

iyke926:
This is bullcrap. Nigeria got no business in space. They should allow technological advanced countries handle that part. There are sectors in science and technology that money and energy should be channelled to nd not space.

And who's to say those other sectors cant be handled alongside space research? This is not an either or situation. Countries that are prominent space actors started from a point as well

caprini1:
Abi o? they should be researching on how to build lasting good roads and constant electricity, misplaced priorities.

In a vast country as Nigeria with many different terrain and soil types, you cannot build one-type-fits-all roads...
High resolution soil mapping provided through satellite technology enables you to reach more efficient decisions on these matters.

9jaRealist:


In a vast country as Nigeria with many different terrain and soil types, you cannot build one-type-fits-all roads...
High resolution soil mapping provided through satellite technology enables you to reach more efficient decisions on these matters.

Thanks for the eye opening....i appreciate.

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caprini1:
Thanks for the eye opening....i appreciate.

You're welcome...

We can even use satellite technology to monitor pipelines, which can spare us the dangers of transporting petroleum products by road.

Ank:
Nothing is impossible. Today Nigeria manufacture cars, Kudos to Innosson.
So, lets wait and see....

Assembles

I bet 80% of people shining their teeth there don't know shiit about our solar system.

Very funny stuff ahahahahahaha

9jaRealist:


The images/information from those satellites are used to predict rainfall/flooding patterns (albeit the warnings are hardly heeded on the ground by the states forewarned), and even high resolution soil type mapping to determine the suitability of crops/livestock for particular regions (and even the suitability of fertilizer applied). It can also be used to track population settlement, resettlement and/or growth patterns, and thus can be very useful for planning purposes (such as decisions regarding the location/prioritization of roads and other infrastructure).

Meanwhile, the telecommunications satellite not only saves Nigeria and Nigerian companies and organizations the millions of dollars expended on using foreign satellites, but also serves a wide range of ancillary functions such as providing GPS services to Nigerian airlines and such other entities. Finally, the knowledge acquired by Nigerian engineers and scientists in these ventures can be applied in other areas of national life.

9jaRealist:

In a vast country as Nigeria with many different terrain and soil types, you cannot build one-type-fits-all roads...
High resolution soil mapping provided through satellite technology enables you to reach more efficient decisions on these matters.

Thanks, many people talking without knowing why we need such technology........Nigeria satellite was the first satellite to detect the hurricane Katrina. People are only interested in bad news about their country.....terrible!

9jaRealist:


The images/information from those satellites are used to predict rainfall/flooding patterns (albeit the warnings are hardly heeded on the ground by the states forewarned), and even high resolution soil type mapping to determine the suitability of crops/livestock for particular regions (and even the suitability of fertilizer applied). It can also be used to track population settlement, resettlement and/or growth patterns, and thus can be very useful for planning purposes (such as decisions regarding the location/prioritization of roads and other infrastructure).

Meanwhile, the telecommunications satellite not only saves Nigeria and Nigerian companies and organizations the millions of dollars expended on using foreign satellites, but also serves a wide range of ancillary functions such as providing GPS services to Nigerian airlines and such other entities. Finally, the knowledge acquired by Nigerian engineers and scientists in these ventures can be applied in other areas of national life.

Thanks for the information it's nice to know

Glorymax:
Physics and astronomy department, University of Nigeria Nsukka. Remember then when P. N. Okeke took us on astronomy course.
It's an interesting subject and you will appreciate the vastness of the universe, astronomical unit which is the Sun-Earth distance. Imagining the distance light travels per second, then light years, and parsecs.
Well, it's not a bad development. We can join them as we can't beat them definitely.

twale my physics brother from a different father.

iammo:

perfect comment

This research center has been in existence since o...if this is a new building ,not worthy men ..we have the money to do better

lakesider:

Be fair with words, ur life is is shambles and not the country

you are referring to your ancestors, your living relatives and your unborn generation

Nice development

ntyce:


Was it the same Okeke who wrote the Physics textbook?

Yes dear, Prof P. N. Okeke that has some physics textbooks to his credit. The wife, F. N. Okeke also taught me at UNN.

Sadiqali24:
twale my physics brother from a different father.

Thanks my dear. Cheers!!

MXrep:
Outside the campus. ? Seems UNN physics/Astronomy department will be in charge

was never under UNN,
they are under NARSDA

EVILFOREST:
NIGERIA is cursed
Is this a POULTRY or What....
PEOPLE will be asked to submit CVs, just for salary emoluments, yet nothing to show for it.

Come back here after 6MONTHS and see BUSHES.
It will incidentally turn into an AGRO RESERVE CENTRE

Your making a big mistake man,
that agency has been there for over 10 years now, just that the building in that pic was newly completed and re-commissioned.
If there is any research agency to be considered serious in Nigeria,
this one should make Number one on the list.

anyimontana:
They even planted corn in front of the building

Hahahahaha...maybe to feed the "astronauts".

9jaRealist:


No more stares abegi!!

Most of the ones we currently have are not working...
But people are too concerned with their kinsmen getting positions that eventually every clan and family will demand their own state.

It is in state creation that the development will touch the grassroot in reality.

Kenmatt:

It is in state creation that the development will touch the grassroot in reality.

Nigeria has gone from 3 to 4 regions, to 12, 19, 21 and 36 states..
Yet, the only thing "touching the grassroots" has been increased POVERTY!

These states that cannot pay common basic salaries (even N30K minimum wage, that is less than a day's food and drinks bill at Govt House, is too much for them to handle), are owing teachers and pensioners forever, and most of which only survive by rushing to Abuja every month to share money mostly derived from the exploitation and despoiling of Niger Delta (and VAT), while the Governors and their so-called First Ladies fly around in first-class or private jets, drive bullet-proof cars (some costing more than the entire monthly wage bill of the teachers in their states), and basically have an unlimited expense account (as well as the slush fund called the Security Vote).

Bros, the creation of more states does absolutely NOTHING of significant (if any) benefit to the ordinary masses, but merely benefit the elite and politically-connected rent-seekers. It creates more governors, commissioners, chief judges, special advisers, special assistants, senators, representatives, assembly members, ministers, board members and all other manner of political appointees. By the time money is expended on Government House, Abuja Liaison Office/Governor's Lodge, official cars, commissioners' housing and other official quarters, new government secretariat, government cars' fuel budget, estacode, car and transport allowances, etc., there's NO money for actual development.
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9jaRealist:


Nigeria has gone from 3 to 4 regions, to 12, 19, 21 and 36 states..
Yet, the only thing "touching the grassroots" has been increased POVERTY!

These states that cannot pay common basic salaries (even N30K minimum wage, that is less than a day's food and drinks bill at Govt House, is too much for them to handle), are owing teachers and pensioners forever, and most of which only survive by rushing to Abuja every month to share money mostly derived from the exploitation and despoiling of Niger Delta (and VAT), while the Governors and their so-called First Ladies fly around in first-class or private jets, drive bullet-proof cars (some costing more than the entire monthly wage bill of the teachers in their states), and basically have an unlimited expense account (as well as the slush fund called the Security Vote).

Bros, the creation of more states does absolutely NOTHING of significant (if any) benefit to the ordinary masses, but merely benefit the elite and politically-connected rent-seekers. It creates more governors, commissioners, chief judges, special advisers, special assistants, senators, representatives, assembly members, ministers, board members and all other manner of political appointees. By the time money is expended on Government House, Abuja Liaison Office/Governor's Lodge, official cars, commissioners' housing and other official quarters, new government secretariat, government cars' fuel budget, estacode, car and transport allowances, etc., there's NO money for actual development.


.

I have to summarize all you have written in few sentences.

Don't you know that your people have the absolute power to recall politicians who are not performing?

The beautiful thing about the two phases in our democratical setting is that any one who did not work up to expection will be given a red card not to get close to the government house for the second term.

Many a time, your people prefer to sell their "birth right" for a peanut.

That some governors and some other politicians are not performing does not mean that all is not performing.

A state like Bayelsa, inspite of all the resources and mega chunk they get from the centre, yet, development is absimally low, Enugu state may not be getting much from the central government but you can attest to the fact that they are not only growing but developing.

Kenmatt:

I have to summarize all you have written in few sentences.

Don't you know that your people have the absolute power to recall politicians who are not performing?

The beautiful thing about the two phases in our democratical setting is that any one who did not work up to expection will be given a red card not to get close to the government house for the second term.

Many a time, your people prefer to sell their "birth right" for a peanut.

That some governors and some other politicians are not performing does not mean that all is not performing.

A state like Bayelsa, inspite of all the resources and mega chunk they get from the centre, yet, development is absimally low, Enugu state may not be getting much from the central government but you can attest to the fact that they are not only growing but developing.

What are you going on about?
Was Gov Nnamani "recalled" when he was robbing the same Enugu State blind?

The saying that a people often deserve the leadership that they get is hardly ever more fitting than for Nigeria and Nigerians. Why should Bayelsa be waiting to "get" anything from the so-called centre from resources taken from it's own backyard (when it really should be the other way around)? And why should Enugu be even getting anything at all from the so-called central government, when likely the bulk of that "get" is from destroying the environment and local economy (primarily based on agriculture, including fisheries and farming) of Bayelsans?

Anyway, Nigeria will remain a Third World Toilet and Nigerians will continue to suffer the Dark Ages leadership that they truly deserve so long as the sort of "your people, our people" primordial mentality of folks like you persist. Here I was proffering economic and policy arguments against the creation of more economically non-viable and effectively-bankrupt "states" in Nigeria that merely serve as clearing houses to share money (and whose weakness/non-viability ironically serve to strengthen the so-called centre), only to be met with crude ethnicity drivel.

9jaRealist:


What are you going on about?
Was Gov Nnamani "recalled" when he was robbing the same Enugu State blind?

The saying that a people often deserve the leadership that they get is hardly ever more fitting than for Nigeria and Nigerians. Why should Bayelsa be waiting to "get" anything from the so-called centre from resources taken from it's own backyard (when it really should be the other way around)? And why should Enugu be even getting anything at all from the so-called central government, when likely the bulk of that "get" is from destroying the environment and local economy (primarily based on agriculture, including fisheries and farming) of Bayelsans?

Anyway, Nigeria will remain a Third World Toilet and Nigerians will continue to suffer the Dark Ages leadership that they truly deserve so long as the sort of "your people, our people" primordial mentality of folks like you persist. Here I was proffering economic and policy arguments against the creation of more economically non-viable and effectively-bankrupt "states" in Nigeria that merely serve as clearing houses to share money (and whose weakness/non-viability ironically serve to strengthen the so-called centre), only to be met with crude ethnicity drivel.

"Why would Bayelsa be getting something from the resources getting from their back yard" is not a point to put forward.

It is as if asking why would Bayelsa state has a governor and deputy governor instead of a King or a Queen.