NEWS STAND: The New Satelite and Education in Nigeria

ICT park to save Nigeria $5billion (The Nation)
"Managing Director of the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT), Tiamasaniyu Ahmed-Rufai, has advocated the use of the recently launched satellite, NigComSat-1R to achieve the ‘Electronic Park’ (e-Park) project and other Information and Communications Technology (ICT) initiatives of the Federal Government..." Read further at http://goo.gl/GXjJN

‘Nigeria ready for satellite-enabled e-education’ (Vanguard) February 22, 2012
"Considering that Satellite communication has always been a major backbone to the development of most advanced societies, Managing Director, Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited Engr. Ahmed-Rufai, has said that his Nigcomsat 1R project was what Nigeria needed to achieve universal access, ICT development, backbone for social, political and economic re-engineering." Read further at http://goo.gl/lTVHI