The Federal Government is rolling out
plans to use space technology to enhance national security,
communication, industrialisation and sustained socio-economic
development.
President Goodluck Jonathan made this known on Tuesday when he inaugurated a 13-member National Space Council (NSC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said that given the critical place of space technology in national security, communication, industrialisation and sustained socio-economic development, the need to properly structure and drive the national space programme could not be over-emphasised.
“This informs why our administration has constituted this council with high calibre membership.
“We must evolve clear cut initiatives that will not only fast-track our industrialisation process, but one that will also see us, within the shortest possible period, to be able to build our own motor vehicles, our own boats and our own aircraft.
“We should also be able to launch our own satellite manufactured in Nigeria from a launch site in Nigeria on a launch vehicle made in Nigeria.”
Jonathan said this was a challenge not only to the members of the council, but to all Nigerians.
“We should rededicate ourselves to building a better, technologically advanced, stable and prosperous Nigeria for our children.”
He reiterated government’s unwavering commitment to the actualisation of the goal of the programme, and urged members of the Council to evolve measures that would enable the country to maximally benefit from the huge investments in the development of space technology.
The Council is chaired by the President, while Vice President Namadi Sambo is the deputy chairman.
Other members are the ministers of science and technology, communication technology, education, defence, interior and national planning.
The attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice; professors Elijah Mshelia, Vincent Olunloyo and Francesca Okeke, and the director-general, National Space Research and Development Agency, are also members of the Council.
The National Space Council is the apex body charged with the responsibility of developing policy guidelines for the country’s activities in space, in addition to monitoring the implementation of the National Space Programme.
President Goodluck Jonathan made this known on Tuesday when he inaugurated a 13-member National Space Council (NSC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said that given the critical place of space technology in national security, communication, industrialisation and sustained socio-economic development, the need to properly structure and drive the national space programme could not be over-emphasised.
“This informs why our administration has constituted this council with high calibre membership.
“We must evolve clear cut initiatives that will not only fast-track our industrialisation process, but one that will also see us, within the shortest possible period, to be able to build our own motor vehicles, our own boats and our own aircraft.
“We should also be able to launch our own satellite manufactured in Nigeria from a launch site in Nigeria on a launch vehicle made in Nigeria.”
Jonathan said this was a challenge not only to the members of the council, but to all Nigerians.
“We should rededicate ourselves to building a better, technologically advanced, stable and prosperous Nigeria for our children.”
He reiterated government’s unwavering commitment to the actualisation of the goal of the programme, and urged members of the Council to evolve measures that would enable the country to maximally benefit from the huge investments in the development of space technology.
The Council is chaired by the President, while Vice President Namadi Sambo is the deputy chairman.
Other members are the ministers of science and technology, communication technology, education, defence, interior and national planning.
The attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice; professors Elijah Mshelia, Vincent Olunloyo and Francesca Okeke, and the director-general, National Space Research and Development Agency, are also members of the Council.
The National Space Council is the apex body charged with the responsibility of developing policy guidelines for the country’s activities in space, in addition to monitoring the implementation of the National Space Programme.
The
Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has urged tanker drivers and owners of
other vehicles not to park indiscriminately on the nation’s highways.
FRSC’s Deputy Corps Marshal (Operations), Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, gave the warning on Tuesday during a road inspection tour from Lagos to Mowe in Ogun.
He said drivers who failed to heed the warning would be prosecuted and remanded in prison.
The FRSC official said the road inspection tour, organised simultaneously across the country, was aimed at sensitising road users to be safety conscious during the rainy season.
He said the one-week event tagged ``operation rain storm’’ was aimed at sensitising drivers on the difficulties of driving during the rainy season.
Oyeyemi said mobile courts had been established on the highways to try drivers caught obstructing traffic on the highways.
He said FRSC would ensure that erring drivers were remanded in prison.
``There is need for drivers to obey road regulations. Our major problem is tanker drivers that park along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
``It is sad that no level of campaign can change them from parking on the roads. But we cannot continue to condone lawlessness,’’ Oyeyemi said.
He disclosed that about 1,000 road offenders had been prosecuted weekly since mobile courts were established by the FRSC across the nation.
Oyeyemi said records in the organisation showed that 12,000 defaulters were prosecuted since the beginning of the year.
The deputy corps marshal also disclosed that 200,000 new vehicle numbers plate had so far been issued in Lagos State alone.
``At least eight out of 10 cars on Lagos roads have new number plates compared to other states, even though the closing date for the issuance of the new number plates still remains Sept. 30, 2013,’’ he said
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He said drivers who failed to heed the warning would be prosecuted and remanded in prison.
The FRSC official said the road inspection tour, organised simultaneously across the country, was aimed at sensitising road users to be safety conscious during the rainy season.
He said the one-week event tagged ``operation rain storm’’ was aimed at sensitising drivers on the difficulties of driving during the rainy season.
Oyeyemi said mobile courts had been established on the highways to try drivers caught obstructing traffic on the highways.
He said FRSC would ensure that erring drivers were remanded in prison.
``There is need for drivers to obey road regulations. Our major problem is tanker drivers that park along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
``It is sad that no level of campaign can change them from parking on the roads. But we cannot continue to condone lawlessness,’’ Oyeyemi said.
He disclosed that about 1,000 road offenders had been prosecuted weekly since mobile courts were established by the FRSC across the nation.
Oyeyemi said records in the organisation showed that 12,000 defaulters were prosecuted since the beginning of the year.
The deputy corps marshal also disclosed that 200,000 new vehicle numbers plate had so far been issued in Lagos State alone.
``At least eight out of 10 cars on Lagos roads have new number plates compared to other states, even though the closing date for the issuance of the new number plates still remains Sept. 30, 2013,’’ he said
- See more at: http://leadership.ng/news/120613/frsc-prosecute-tanker-drivers-who-indiscriminately-park-highways#sthash.eqCsRrxE.dpuf
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Is it not you so-called elders that used to say "success has no short cut" You cant start building up, when down is empty. This has further exposed Mr President's inability and incompetence in leading this country.
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