NIGCOMSAT Partners NNPC to Deliver Satellite Services

Nigerian Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Limited has entered into strategic partnership with National Petroleum Telecommunications Limited (NAPET)l, a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), for the provision of satellite services on monitoring its sensitive equipment and services.

The fallout of a meeting between the two organisations during a visit to NAPET by NIGCOMSAT management team led by Tukur Mohammed Lawal, its managing director, who assured that NIGCOMSAT has the capacity and the manpower to provide satellite solutions to NAPET as well as its mother company: the Nigerian National Petroleum Company.

Dr. Adamu Idris, general manager, Corporate Affairs and Special Project, NIGCOMSAT, in a statement said the pact offers the company a strategic pathway to sustain its business enterprise.

Lawal extol the contributions of the NNPC) and its subsidiary NAPET, in providing services that enable the Nigerian economy to grow.

Sanusi Yerima, the managing director of NAPET, expressed certainty that the strategic alliance would upgrade NNPC infrastructure.

He said “We are hitting the ground running, I do not believe in low hanging fruit, we can do business anywhere in the world. l believe in where we can get business and make profit.

“We have seen the Kogi, Kaduna and Abuja (KKA) pipeline project ongoing through the services of NIGCOMSAT. We are also impressed with NIGCOMSAT’s ‘on the move vehicle’, an infrastructure that provides services in remote areas, in the air, on the sea, through satellite services.