theInterpreter:
if Ghana was useless
Your people won't be rushing there

Just like Nigeria is a ''zoo'' to them, yet they are all over Nigeria more than any other ethnicity, refusing to stay in Igboland.

It's best to treat these IPOB lunatics like the worthless vagabonds they are.

Victerica:
The Nigerians wey dem train, na dem go still help boys...

Nigerians and scam are like 5 and 6.

Poverty must die sha

You don't know that, so shut up.

Not every Nigerian is a corrupt thief like you.

1billi:
Americans with their b.s again lol, ask them how many them don catch before them won start to dey teach us,always forming saint meanwhile they are the HQ of crimes in the universe.. Ozwor!

Don't mind them. The original thieves and crooks are ''training'' others. This world sef.... Mshewww.

DanielAlhassan:
Any small something you go dey shout I go school I go school

Oya what is the opposite of Nigeria?

Who are YOU the opposite of?

Leave 'Nigeria' and face yourself.

Mr Perfect.

naija4life247:


That's what I am saying. Leave the terrorists, let them finish off themselves. Stop airlifting terrorists to US, Canada, Europe and Australia. Stop putting more lifes in danger. Every Arab is a terrorist, make and female.

In few months time, you will start seeing terrorists attacks in US, Canada and Europe. Attacks that will be planned and executed by the Afghans that are being airlifted today.

Your are an unschooled, brainwashed and bamboozled dunce who gets all his 'knowledge' from CNN, the world's prime imperialist propaganda network.

The day you finally gain insight into what is going on in the world and the great manipulation of her people by the US and its allies, you will kick yourself for being such a hateful, ignorant, bigoted dunce.

SpecialAdviser:
We will sit and watch how ISIL_K and Taliban will finish themselves off.

Really nice to watch Taliban being terrorized by another terrorist group.

Once US leaves, expect more bombings until the Afghan civilians become tired and revolt against any terrorist group themselves.

At least America has given them a taste of freedom.

Dumbo slave. America gave who a taste of what?

You Nigerians are just slaves to CNN propaganda.

Disgraceful.

I bet you don't know that ISIL that's been dropping bombs in Kabul since the Taliban took over, is a western, US and Saudi backed Islamic terrorist army.

Broveens42:
Common residentials in owerri paid attention to

Where is the pedestrian sidewalk?

Do you even know what that is?

Why are there open drains?

That street is nothing to show off.

AVECDEO:


He tried to resist the imperial/colonial high handedness and the pilfering natives resources to enrich and develop European industries at the start of the industrial age.

He had nonopoly/controlled of the Palm Oil market which the colonialist detested particularly the Royal Nigerian Company a British chartered company.

He was said to be one of the richest African of that Era and an astute businessman which the imperialist found baffling.

He was also one of the earliest African who saw through the heart of the wicked white man...so he resisted them and they didn't like "him".

He was indeed a great man.

I don't know why history is not thought in Nigerian school.

How do we discover ourself when we don't know where we are coming from...

Thank you my brother.

King Jaja of Opobo tolerated no nonsense from the British colonialists, and he paid the price.

Great son of Africa.

Powersurge:
Shagari's 1979 campaign poster surfaced online last week. In it, he was talking about power, refineries etc. 41+ years later, 207m people are using 2,500MW of power. No refinery. I mean, even if you are crawling. As in say devil dey person back and he could only manage to add 1,000MW of power per year, we supposed dey talk at least 40,000 MW.

You see this useless entity called Nigeria cannot go anywhere. Those of you wasting your hopes and prayers, your fathers were probably hopeful in 1979.

This satellite technology, 30 years later, u go discover say we no go get one single one in space.

Stop lying. Power generation currently stands at double what you claimed.

It is 5,118.6MW.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/08/power-generation-improves-to-5118-6mw/

And the only ''useless entity'' here is you.

You're completely useless to Nigeria.

Mrexcell:
What is the use of all these satellites when the govt can't even use it to locate bandits in the forests? Wasting billions of dollars for absolutely nothing.

Thoughtless post. How do you know they are not being used to locate bandits?

Did the military authorities even tell you that 'locating' the bandits was a problem for them?

The issue of actually mounting offensives against military targets goes beyond merely locating the targets.

So how do you know the satellites haven't done their job, and it's actually a military issue?

Elporo:


So it ran out of sunlight fuel?

Clown!

Sunlight alone does not produce solar power.

1000Capacity:
Nicomsat uses solar and not fuel

Technically, anything used to provide power or heat constitutes a 'fuel'.

orisa37:
ANOTHER WAY TO MISAPPROPRIATE FUND AND LOOT THE FUND. LET THE SATELLITE FALL FROM THE SPACE ON MACBAN AND TALIBAN.

Your problem is poverty. Go and hustle.

Mcreloaded:
Through out it's life span I did not see any which way it affected the common man on the street, insecurity is still at it's worst when there was no satellite, abi is it hunger in the land.

In other words I guess we were better off without satellite.

Ghana does not have a single satellite but yet their economy and security surpasses Nigeria a thousand times over

Ignoramus. Go back and read the BENEFITS of the satellites as stated in the post. 

Is there anywhere it said having satellites will make all Nigerians millionaires with mansions?

In your head everything is about ''money'' and ''security''.

What about things like erosion control? Disaster management? Weather prediction? Agricultural monitoring? Environmental impact assessments for construction? Climate analysis?

Do you know Ghana and much of West Africa rely on Nigeria for satellite imagery and data?

Ignorant, self hating buffoons.

TimeSpaceWizard:


Then Rocket Start Ups should be our focus. The future depends on Sat techs and AI

No probs. Lead the way bro. Start small but confident and you can do great things.

Ikpeyi:
I ready to supply the fuel oh...


Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba for 2023....

lol

TimeSpaceWizard:
Are there no Nigerian currently able to design satellite as well as Rocket to shoot them to Lower Earth Orbit?

The satellites in use were designed and built by Nigerian space engineers.

Nigerians are the first black people to build satellites.

See:
https://www.scidev.net/global/news/nigeria-launches-first-satellite-built-by-africans/

Nigeria has sponsored or co-sponsored six satellites, of which only two are currently operational. One of them is functioning even though it has passed its expiry date, according to the director general of the National Space Research and Development Agency. The Conversation’s West Africa regional editor, Adejuwon Soyinka, asks space policy researcher Samuel Oyewole to explain what this means for the country.

NigComSat-1R


What does it mean for a satellite to run out of fuel or expire?

A satellite can be said to have expired by design or operation. Like every other machine, satellites are designed with a projected expiry date or calculated life expectancy. Beyond this period the operational survival is not guaranteed by the manufacturer. The ability to keep functioning beyond the set date is driven by a combination of factors. These include the quality of its design, development and maintenance as well as a favourable host environment. A satellite can survive as long as it is supported by its hardware and software, control system and hosting orbit.

Operationally, a satellite expires when any of its critical components suffers enough damage or is degraded to the point of causing system or major sub-system failure.

A satellite is made up of different components. These include a protective box, on-board computer for receiving, processing and transmitting signals, as well as solar array panels, batteries and fuel for energy. Any problem with any of these can translate to the operational end of a satellite.

Unlike cars or aircraft, satellites don’t really need fuel for their daily orbital operation. They mostly rely on solar powered batteries. However, the fuel is relevant in supporting satellites to maintain orbital trajectory and conduct manoeuvres when required. Hence, when a satellite runs out of power it is usually switched off to avoid collision.

Beyond these, an accident or an attack can end the operational life expectancy of a satellite. Space is a very harsh environment, which is becoming increasingly congested.

For example, a satellite can be damaged or destroyed by:

harsh space weather, including radiation and solar flare;

collision with another satellite and space debris, such as natural meteoroids (rocks and metallic objects) and human-made junk in orbit; and

attacks from anti-satellite weapons, including missiles, weaponised satellites, lasers and hacking.

This means it’s important that satellites are designed to the highest engineering quality.

What’s the status of the satellite?

Nigeria currently has a communication satellite, NigComSat-1R, and an Earth observation satellite, NigeriaSat-2, in operation.

The communication satellite was designed to last for 15 years (2011-2026) in orbit. The Earth observation satellite is surviving beyond projected life expectancy of seven years (2011-2018)....

The director general of the National Space Research and Development Agency said recently that the satellite was surviving by grace. It’s possible he was referring to the operation endurance of NigeriaSat-2.

Nevertheless, some of the critical components of the satellite may not endure much longer. This would mean it would stop operating.

What are the implications if it stops operating?

If NigeriaSat-2 goes down without replacement, it will affect Nigeria’s capacity to access space support for development and security.

For example, the satellite provides information on security, agriculture and transportation. Aside from satellite generated data, the Nigerian government has limited capacity to determine things like agricultural and construction activities across the country in almost real time.

In addition, information from satellite is vital for disaster management – it enables early warnings to be issued – and national security policy.

By having its own satellite, Nigeria doesn’t need to rely on basic satellite data from other countries.

Without this satellite – or a replacement – Nigeria would be forced to rely on its archive or foreign government and private companies to supply the relevant data. This isn’t optimal. Firstly, information from the archives would be old. Secondly, relying on foreign government or information from private companies carries risks.

What can be done to manage the loss of the satellite?

The loss of any satellite is inevitable. So timely investment in a replacement is critical. The government has started moving in this direction. The approved 2021 budget has limited provision for manufacturing and launching NigeriaSat-3 and NigeriaSar-1. It also includes plan for training 60 engineers, among other things. But this should have been done much earlier.

What’s your assessment of Nigeria’s investment in satellite research and development?
Nigeria has made huge investments in this area. More than $1 billion has been set aside for this purpose over the last two decades. This included about $450 million spent on two communication satellites and four Earth observatory or research satellites.

But investment still falls short of what is required. For example, the available satellites aren’t enough to ensure a national constellation that can provide adequate and reliable coverage for communication or Earth observatory services.

More importantly, Nigeria hasn’t invested in satellite manufacturing capability. It has trained many engineers. But it lacks required infrastructure to support building satellites. Existing satellites were designed and built in the UK, China and Japan.

Nigeria has got considerable benefit from its satellites, which have produced thousands of relevant images for development and security. And it has developed centres across the country to process and convert satellite data to what is easily consumable. These have been used to support agriculture, disaster management, education and military campaigns.

The communication satellite has also been useful in supporting civil, commercial and military demands. With the Earth observation satellite, it has contributed to the command and control via computers, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance of the Nigerian military.

Some federal ministries and agencies, as well as government and private-owned corporations, have equally benefited from their partnership with the Nigerian Communication Satellite Limited.

But there are still concerns that Nigeria’s space capabilities are underutilised. For example, data that is available from the Nigerian Earth observation satellites isn’t used in town planning in most state and local governments.

Similar concern is evident in the management of forest reserves. These have become sanctuaries for criminals.

Benefits from investment in satellite R & D are closely connected to the capacity of public institutions and the private sector to access, adopt and use space technologies to advance development and security in the country.

https://theconversation.com/one-of-nigerias-satellites-is-on-its-last-legs-why-this-is-worrying-165068

kollinzgee:

In one word you support genocide right? Ok.

No. Because the USA genocided 100 million native Americans who lived there prior to the arrival of white folks from Europe who became the new 'Americans'.

Today, only a tiny remnant of those natives remain, with many placed in 'reservations' where tourists go to view them like zoo creatures.

kollinzgee:
Nigeria has the highest number of genocide victims ranging from the civil war down the lekki and obigbo genocide.the world obviously knows about it but will never do anything,the lekki massacre actually proved that we are on our own in this shithole the world betrayed Nigerian masses in 2020,i am forced to believe there is a conspiracy against black people somewhere.

But George W Bush and Tony Blair slaughtered over 1 million Iraqis based on lies about Iraq's non-existent WMDs.

Why have THEY not been charged with crimes against humanity?

The US has also invaded all but 3 nations on Earth in its history.

In fact, ''Since World War II, during a supposed golden age of peace, the United States military has killed or helped kill some 20 million people, overthrown at least 36 governments, interfered in at least 85 foreign elections, attempted to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders, and dropped bombs on people in over 30 countries. The United States is responsible for the deaths of 5 million people in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and over 1 million just since 2003 in Iraq.

Since 2001, the United States has been systematically destroying a region of the globe, bombing Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria, not to mention the Philippines. The United States has “special forces” operating in two-thirds of the world’s countries and non-special forces in three-quarters of them.

The U.S. government provides weapons, military training, and/or military funding to almost every dictatorship and oppressive government on earth.''

https://davidswanson.org/warlist/

If anyone should be judged for crimes against humanity, it should be US leaders. Nigerian leaders? Not even close.