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Regional centre for space education

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    Four English-speaking African countries have agreed to set up a regional centre for space and technology education, PANA reported yesterday.

    Officials from ministries of science and technology in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Liberia initialled the agreement at the weekend in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, while a UN expert on space applications, Abiodun Adigun, signed for the United Nations, PANA reported.

    The programme, aimed at developing space science and technology education in Africa, will be based in Ile-Ife.

    Nigeria and Morocco were chosen in 1995 by UN Outer Space Affairs to host the regional space and technology education centres for Anglophone and Francophone African countries respectively, PANA said.

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