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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has expressed support for NIGCOMSAT Ltd as the publicly owned communication satellite company reworks its market presence under its new CEO, Mrs Nkechi Jane Egerton-Idehen.
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NAF expressed faith in NIGCOMSAT and desire to patronize its services during a recent tour of the company’s Ground Control Station in Abuja.
NAF’s team was led by Chief of Communication Information Systems, Air Marshal Ibikunle O. Daramola.
According to Daramola, the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Hassan Bala Abubakar, is committed to ensuring that the “value that space science and technology and indeed communications technology, has in terms of ensuring the Nigerian Air Force is effective in conducting its operations and ensuring the territorial integrity of Nigeria by means of the air and of the space’.
The Airforce chief expressed hope that the new CEO will bring her pedigree, “the skills she has acquired over the years” to bear in managing the satellite enterprise to success and actualize the mandate for which the company was set up.
“Even though we told the market we are ‘Open to Business’, what we are actually committing to the market is that we want to deliver enhanced service to the market. We have not done that before,” said Egerton-Idehen.
Adding: ‘we want to ensure that the market is confident that our infrastructure is reliable. We want the market to have a fair view of the fact we are going to drive indigenous technology.”
She described the Armed Forces as a partner of the satellite company and particularly noted the patronage of the NAF.
“You have been part of the journey. I want you to understand where the journey will take us to because you are important to us,” she told the Airforce team.
