As the Augustine Committee readies itself to present their options for NASA’s course to President Obama, a new player in the race to the Moon is emerging to the public spotlight, though their plans have been around for some time. Nigeria, along with South Africa, have robust plans for their space programs in the years ahead. Most importantly though, beyond expanding satellite infrastructure, Nigeria has plans on the book to launch it’s first citizen into space by 2016 (one year after Orion would enter service) and plan to land humans on the Moon by 2030. We can add them to a growing list of countries that could land humans on the Moon before the United States if NASA doesn’t recieve the adequate funding it needs. That list, which includes countries with plans to land humans on the Moon by 2030 are China, Russia, Japan, and Nigeria.