$500m insurance contracts: NIGCOMSAT breached due process – Reps
The House of Representatives has accused the management of the Nigerian Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) of violating the Public Procurement Act in the award of $500 million insurance contracts. Shocked by the company’s action, the Lower House Ad-hoc Committee probing the insurance companies’ pay-outs to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), invited NIGCOMSAT’s former Managing Director, Alhaji […]
Nigeria Wins Contract To Manage Belarus’s Satellite For 15 Years
Nigeria has made history in the global space technology market by becoming the first country in the Sub-Sahara Africa to manage a foreign satellite. This followed the emergence of Nigerian Communications Satellite (NigComSat) limited, the operator of NigComSat-R, the Nigerian Communication Satellite as the winner of a bidding process to provide In-Orbit test (IOT) and […]