{"id":35355,"date":"2024-06-19T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=35355"},"modified":"2024-06-19T18:21:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T18:21:12","slug":"nigerian-government-to-send-first-civilian-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/06\/19\/nigerian-government-to-send-first-civilian-to-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Government to Send First Civilian to Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced a groundbreaking initiative to send its first civilian into space. This historic endeavor was unveiled by Dr. Mathew Adepoju, Director General of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), during a press conference in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Adepoju revealed that Nigeria has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA) to facilitate this ambitious project. He emphasized that this collaboration marks a significant milestone in Nigeria&#8217;s 25th anniversary of space exploration, positioning the nation among those actively engaged in human spaceflight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This initiative opens up new avenues for scientific research and technological advancement,&#8221; Dr. Adepoju remarked. He also highlighted the potential of this endeavor to foster technological progress and ignite interest in STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) among Nigerian youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced a groundbreaking initiative to send its first civilian into space. This historic endeavor was unveiled by Dr. Mathew Adepoju, Director General of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), during a press conference in Abuja. &nbsp; Dr. Adepoju revealed that Nigeria has signed a Memorandum of Understanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":35356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35357,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35355\/revisions\/35357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}