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BY TORDUE SALEM The House of Representatives Monday dismissed as grossly incompetent, the management of the Nigerian Communications Satellite, NIGCOMSAT, Ltd, over their failure to account for revenues generated by the agency from 2012-2019. The Chairman of the House Committee on Finance Rep. James Falake gave his assessment, when the Management of the Agency led
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Iran “successfully” launched a satellite into space on Sunday but it fell short of reaching orbit, a defence ministry spokesman said on state television. Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi admitted in a tweet that the launch “failed”, adding: “But We’re UNSTOPPABLE! We have more Upcoming Great Iranian Satellites!” The satellite had been launched at
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Iran started counting down Sunday to the launch within hours of a scientific observation satellite that is part of a programme the United States has previously described as a “provocation”. Arch foes Iran and the United States have appeared to be on the brink of an all-out confrontation twice since last year. Long-standing acrimony between
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A new report from Bloomberg claims Apple is working on satellite technology to beam data to users’ devices and could launch a new initiative using the tech within five years. There are a lot of unknowns and caveats, though. The project is “still early and could be abandoned,” says Bloomberg, and it’s not clear what
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Vice President, Sales (Africa) at UAE-based satellite company, YahClick, Michael Brown is not new to satellite development in Africa. With 19 years of Senior and Executive Management experience in the Sales and Marketing functions in the ICT, Cellular, Satellite and Logistics sectors, mostly around Africa, Brown considers himself, an authority in analysing African satellite situations and views his solutions as capable of proving enduring remedies.
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The Nigerian Institute of Space Engineers (NISE) has called on the Federal Government to provide more earth observation satellites to aid national security and socio-economic development.
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To avert disaster, residents of Satellite Town, Lagos, has demanded the removal of tank farms from their community.
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By Adekunle Aliyu In this interview, Libby Barr, Chief Operating Officer at Avanti Communications, a leading provider of satellite data communications services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Funke Opeke, Chief Executive Officer at MainOne, an African connectivity and data centre solutions company, speak on their recent partnership to improve broadband penetration
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Going by the statistics of the telecom regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, internet is fast penetrating and Nigeria could pass as one of the fast rising internet enabled economies of the world.
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Satellite operator, SES, has said it significantly increased its technical reach in Nigeria to over 11 million TV homes in 2017. This is up from three million in 2015.
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