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NigComSat to Nigerians

There is no single operator today that has not faced one failure or the other. Ours is even like a child that is trying to walk; when you make first attempt and you stand up and you fall down, that doesn't mean you continue to crawl just because you fall. So, we are confident that we are going to stand up again and we are going to be much stronger.

Ahmed T. Rufai, managing director, Nigeria Communication Satellite Ltd speaking while testifying before the House Committee on Science & Technology over the missing NigComSat-1.

“This is our effort to make the businesses of our partners more profitable, broaden their market space by providing regional exclusivity; enable business portfolio expansion by offering more products and services and more importantly support their quest for growth through infrastructural support.”

-MTN Sales and Distribution Executive, Mike Ikpoki at the launch of BizLift in Lagos

“APC's data centre management suite utilises real-time data and a common database, which means that data centre decisions can be made based on facts and not merely based on nameplate data typically used by stand-alone inventory management tools”

-Kleynhans, regional director, Africa at APC by Electric speaking at the launch of a new product

“There is nothing that has suggested that we are incapable of handling satellite maintenance to the best of my reasoning. Satellite communications is business and government has no business managing business. That is the fundamental issue here.” -Telecoms Engineer, Titi Omo-Ettu reacting to the news of the missing NigComSat-1

“Our Smart Phones are manufactured by the very best and has embedded “best in class” technology from some of the world's leading brands such as Microsoft which is providing the operating system, Samsung, the Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Infineon, the chip set. It is on record that Anabel's design and components are the same as is currently being used in the Apple iPhone.”

- CEO, Anabel Group Inc., Nicholas Okoye at the media launch of Anabel Smartphones in Lagos