NIGCOMSAT

The Nigerian Communication Satellite Limited ( NigComSat ) is a company operating under the Nigerian Ministry of Science and Technology. The law establishing of NigComSat has not yet entered into force, so that the company is currently in a legally ambiguous status. The space agency NASRDA there are overlaps in terms of tasks and competences. The NASRDA looks NigComSat as a subsidiary, while NigComSat looks directly subordinated to the Ministry.

NIGCOMSATs task is the operation of Nigerian satellites. Among other things, NigComSat -1 operated by this company. This communication satellite was launched in May 2007, but had to be taken out of service following a defect in November 2008.

Managing Director of NigComSat is Ahmed Rufai.

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