@ B.O.S.S.I

hope and pray that Yar'Adua and the other corrupt coons would soon go missing and we no go find them again, somebody say amen!!!

[size=16pt]Amen[/size]

Though it is sad for Nigeria to lose a satellite, we should examine the history of development of all countries, that major achievements are
usually made by surmounting big failures. After the NASA Challenger Space Shuttle disaster of 1986 which claimed several lives,a Nigerian Engineer: Prof Augustine Esogbue, was appointed the Head of the Safety Committee to oversee the safety of future Space shuttle programs.

We need not be pessimistic about our own development.

We have never had this kind of loss because we hardly undertake challenging endeavours.
Many workers died underground before the British perfected the construction methods of the London Tube.
Many air crashes have taken place and still take place in our quest for air travel.

Satellite Technology is a conglomeration of diverse skills and industries: astronomy, software development, computer-aided design,
electronic printed circuit board fabrication, radiocommunications, orbital mechanics, thermodynamics, solar energy, etc.

It is not possible for Nigeria to fool the world about owning a satellite, because the intelligence agencies of the developed world
work day and night, monitoring satellites.

It may appear cheaper to continue paying a "small fee" for the past 25 years for the use of other satellites, but we would be
failing to utilize the geostationary orbit / spectrum natural resource. Even in the petroleum industry, commercial quantities of oil are not discovered
with 100% success.

Our benefits from the petroleum industry has been very little because it is capital intensive and our technological input has remained very little. How can a nation of over 100 million people expect to survive from the royalties of selling crude oil? The technologies and skills from satellite
are transferable to the oil industry. Allow me to stress that we do not "produce" crude oil, we only allow foreigners to produce it (at our own cost) and get peanuts that looks so much to us.

Let us use satellite technology to be free from the addiction to petroleum evacuation.
Shell Petroleum is an Anglo-Dutch company, but in those countries, graduates do not have rush into oil sector to assist in
evacuating crude oil, the way we do.