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FG plans 25-year space development plan
Oluyinka Akintunde, Abuja
President Olusegun Obasanjo has approved a 25-year plan for the development of space science and technology for the country.
The Minister of Science and Technology, Prof. Turner Isoun, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja, at the opening of the First African Leadership Conference on Space Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in Abuja.
Isoun, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Dr. Abdullahi Aliyu, said the 25-year plan would ensure manufacturing and launching of a Nigerian satellite as well as ensuring a Nigerian astronaut in space.
He said, "The blueprint is that within the next 10 years, a Nigerian astronaut will be produced. That is, a Nigerian astronaut will be in space within the next 10 years and in the next 15 years, the blueprint states that a Nigerian satellite, that is a satellite manufactured in Nigeria, will be launched.
"Within the next 25 years, another satellite produced and manufactured in Nigeria will be launched on Nigerian soil. At present, we go to either Russia or Germany to launch our satellite. But within the next 25 years, we should have developed the capability in satellite technology and capability in ability to launch satellite."
The Punch, Thursday November 24, 2005
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