https://spacewatch.global/tag/nigeria/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 24 Oct 2024 10:33:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/nigeria/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2024/10/intelsat-reports-the-loss-of-its-is-33e-satellite/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 06:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=61872 Intelsat has reported that the anomaly it disclosed regarding the Intelsat 33e satellite has resulted in the total loss of the satellite. On 19 October, Intelsat announced a service outage on the Intelsat 33e satellite, affecting customers in Europe, Africa and parts of the Asia-Pacific region, resulting in a loss of power and service to customers.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/10/nigcomsat-appoints-nkechi-egerton-idehen-as-new-ceo/ Mon, 16 Oct 2023 06:00:41 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=51752 Nkechi Egerton-Idehen has been appointed as the new CEO of the Nigerian Communications Satellite Company (NIGCOMSAT). This appointment comes amidst the Nigerian President, Bola Tinubu's significant reshuffle within the Country's Ministry of Communications, Innovations, and Digital Economy, NIGCOMSAT's parent ministry. As a result, Nkechi Egerton-Idehen will assume her new role immediately, succeeding Engineer Tukur Mohammed Lawal Funtua, who took over as NIGCOMSAT’s CEO in December 2022.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/10/world-space-week-association-selects-alma-okpalefe-as-executive-director/ Wed, 11 Oct 2023 06:00:24 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=51654 World Space Week Association (WSWA) has announced the selection of Alma Okpalefe as its Executive Director on the occasion of World Space Week 2023. She will be replacing Maruksa Strah, who served as the Association‘s Executive Director for five years. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/03/e-space-secures-landing-rights-from-nigeria/ Tue, 21 Mar 2023 07:00:26 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=47398 E-Space has received Nigerian landing rights for E-Space’s impending low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation from the Nigerian Communications Commission. The E-Space satellite system will provide communications services and connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices throughout Nigeria in many of the hardest-to-reach parts of the country, particularly those areas currently unserved by terrestrial providers.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/12/rwanda-and-nigeria-sign-artemis-accords/ Wed, 14 Dec 2022 07:00:57 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=45481 Rwanda and Nigeria have signed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Artemis Accords, becoming the first African nations to join the accords. Nigeria's Minister of Communication, Professor Ali Isa Pantami, and Rwanda's Space Agency CEO, Col Francis Ngabo, signed the agreement on behalf of their countries. The signatures took place under the sidelines of the US-Africa Space Forum on the sideline of the US-Africa Leaders' Summit in Washington DC, United States]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/08/rockefeller-foundation-invests-in-satellite-data-and-ai-to-boost-economic-development-in-africa/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 06:00:11 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=43004 The Rockefeller Foundation launched a new US $5.5 million collaboration with e-GUIDE (Electricity Growth and Use In Developing Economies Initiative) and public benefit technology startup Atlas AI, to accelerate economic development and promote climate resilient infrastructure investment across sub-Saharan Africa, the Foundation said. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/03/cnes-and-aaso-join-forces-africa-enters-the-actinspace-fold/ Tue, 17 Mar 2020 06:00:30 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=20622 Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES) President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Sekou Ouedraogo, President of the African Aeronautics & Space Organisation (AASO), signed a partnership agreement to develop ,the ActInSpace international hackathon in Africa.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/03/uks-oneweb-receives-permission-to-operate-in-armenia/ Fri, 06 Mar 2020 06:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=20239 British-headquartered satellite communications company OneWeb has received permission to operate in the South Caucasus country of Armenia, according to the company’s CEO Adrián Steckel in a 1 March 2020 interview with Russian newspaper Vedomosti.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/01/uks-oneweb-awarded-satellite-communications-landing-rights-in-nigeria/ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 06:00:45 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=18484 The Nigerian Communicatons Commission (NCC) has released a list of 55 authorised space stations and the licensees allowed to provide satellite communications services across Nigerian sovereign territory, with the UK’s OneWeb being the only megaconstellation provider listed.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/10/ethiopia-to-begin-work-on-satellite-mait-facility-with-european-funding/ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 05:00:13 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=16571 https://spacewatch.global/2019/03/asx-listed-sky-and-space-global-signs-trial-agreement-with-mtn-nigeria/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 06:00:19 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12950 Sky and Space Global, Ltd. (SAS) has announced that it has signed a trial agreement with Nigerian mobile telecommunications provider, MTN Nigeria.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/nielsen-study-puts-eutelsat-in-pole-position-for-west-african-satellite-television/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 06:00:34 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11315 A far-reaching in-depth study, led by Nielsen, of television reception throughout Nigeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast, has positioned Eutelsat as satellite market leader within these countries. The face-to-face interviews were conducted with 3,000 households in Nigeria, 2,000 in Cameroun and 2,000 in Ivory Coast, representative of the population of the geographical area surveyed.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/nigcomsat-selects-newtec-to-power-its-ka-band-satellite-broadband-services/ Tue, 13 Nov 2018 06:00:38 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11289 Newtec, the Belgian specialist company in the design, development and manufacture of equipment for satellite communications, announced on 12 November 2018 its technology will be used by leading satellite operator NIGCOMSAT as it expands its enterprise, government, and consumer Ka-band broadband services in Nigeria.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/ethiopia-to-build-and-launch-remote-sensing-satellite-with-chinese-help/ Mon, 05 Nov 2018 06:00:56 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11123 Ethiopian scientists and engineers are building a small Earth observation satellite in cooperation with and with funding from China, which will be launched from China in 2019, according to a report in The East African newspaper. This announcement is the culmination of much effort to bring Ethiopian space ambitions to reality.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/10/nigeria-lobbies-to-host-african-union-space-centre/ Wed, 31 Oct 2018 06:00:36 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11068 Nigeria is lobbying the African Union (AU) to host its African Space Centre, according to a report published in the Nigerian newspaper Independent on 29 October 2018.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/10/ses-to-broadcast-free-to-air-satellite-tv-channels-in-nigeria/ Thu, 11 Oct 2018 05:00:31 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=10778 Local television broadcast audiences in Nigeria will now have access to 13 new free-to-air (FTA) channels delivered as a multi-channel bouquet branded ‘PREMIUM.FREE’. The bouquet’s launch channels will be supplied by AfricaXP and delivered via SES satellites at 28.2 degrees East, SES has announced.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/09/philippines-on-verge-of-creating-national-space-agency-after-key-legislation-introduced/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 05:00:38 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=10475 The Philippines is on the verge of creating its own national space agency after a prominent Filipino politician sponsored legislation in the Senate plenary of Senate Bill 1983, or the “Act Establishing the Philippine Space Development and Utilization Policy and Creating the Philippine Space Agency, and for other Purposes,” earlier in September 2018.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/09/sao-tome-and-principe-signs-space-agreement-with-india/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 05:00:58 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=10352 The government of São Tomé and Príncipe signed an agreement with India to create a space centre on the island that is situated off of Africa's Equatorial West coast at a ceremony held on 8 September 2018 during a visit to New Delhi by the São Tomé and Príncipe Minister for Foreign Affairs, according to a report in Africanews.space.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/09/nigerian-army-to-create-cyber-warfare-command-to-combat-online-terrorism-and-crime/ Fri, 07 Sep 2018 05:00:50 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=10284 The Nigerian Army is creating a Cyber Warfare Command comprised of 150 personnel drawn from across the service in order to combat rising cyber insecurity from terrorists, criminal organisations, and other threats.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/08/nigerias-nigcomsat-mired-in-accusations-of-excessive-pricing-policy/ Wed, 01 Aug 2018 05:00:28 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=9709 Nigerian media has reported that foreign telecommunication companies are refusing to use the services of NIGCOMSAT-1R because it is far more expensive than current market prices elsewhere, leading to claims that Nigeria’s indigenous satellite communications sector is uncompetitive.]]>