I recently talked about Italians in Outer Space and quite forgot about Nigeria's contribution to the space race ......
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Yes I am not joking, Nigeria, paid the Chinese to build it a satellite, which was placed into orbit by the Russians, and thus became only the third African country after South Africa and Algeria, to have a presence in space, and all at the total cost of a mere $340m (£228m).
