The management of the Nigeria Communications Satellite LTD (NIGCOMSAT LTD) has entered into strategic partnership with the National Petroleum Telecommunications Limited (NAPET), a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), for the provision of satellite services on monitoring its sensitive equipment and services.
The partnership according to a statement by NIGCOMSAT is a strategic move to revitalize and sustain its business enterprise.
This is as the Managing Director, NIGCOMSAT LTD, Engr Tukur Mohammed Lawal, said his agency has the capacity and the manpower to provide satellite solutions to NAPET or its operations and its mother company, the NNPC.
According to the statement signed by the GM, Corporate Affairs and Special Project NIGCOMSAT LTD, Dr. Adamu Idris and made available to NatureNews, Lawal while leading a high power delegation to NAPET on Tuesday also extolled the contributions of the NNPC, its subsidiary NAPET, in providing services that enable the Nigerian economy to grow, noting that the meeting with NAPET is one of the best interactions he has had with any of the agencies of government in recent time.
Lawal also welcomed the opportunity NAPET had given to NIGCOMSAT to explore its resources to provide satellite services.
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Earlier in his welcome address, the Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer of NAPET, SanusiYerima, expressed his confidence that having strategic partnership with NIGCOMSAT would help upscale NNPC infrastructure, a mandate, which NAPET uphold dearly.
He added, “We are hitting the ground running, I do not believe in law hanging fruit, we can do business anywhere in the world. l believe in where we can get business and make profit.”
He continued, “We have seen the Kogi, Kaduna and Abuja (KKA) pipeline project ongoing through the services of NIGCOMSAT. We are also impressed with NIGCOMSAT, ‘on the move vehicle’, an infrastructure that provides services in remote areas, in the air, on the sea, through satellite services.
“Therefore we have confidence that we can do business together. ‘To us at NAPET, this partnership is strategic and a welcome development.”
The NAPET helmsman specifically expressed the agency’s interest in the L-Band services.
