The Federal Government is putting all the structures on ground to ensure that a Nigerian astronaut lands in space on or before 2030, Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu said on Thursday, March 24, 2016.
Onu made this disclosure in Abuja during a visit of the management team of the Defence Space Agency led by Air Vice Marshal Victor Udo.
“The space programme is a very important programme for a country like Nigeria, the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology would work very hard in the years to come to strengthen all the structures of the agencies that would help us to ensure that the nation play role in the space,” Dr. Onu disclosed.
“We believe that this is achievable and we are working very hard to make sure that all the structures that are needed is provided.”
The minister also said that Nigeria has the largest population and economy in Africa, hence the plan to send astronauts into space is the right way to go. He stressed that that tall ambition justifies the establishment of the the Space Defence Agency.
