KSA and NIGCOMSAT Explore Satellite Communication Collaboration in Abuja

On Wednesday 24 September 2025, Kenya Space Agency delegation led by the DG Brig Hillary Kipkosgey met and held discussions with the NIGCOMSAT leadership team led by the MD & CEO Mrs. Jane Egerton-Idehen.
 
The meeting was the third stop in a series of engagements the KSA delegation is having with Nigeria Space Industry players, having held discussions with the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), among others. The DG KSA explained that the purpose of the visit was to forge closer working relationships between Kenya and Nigeria in space cooperation, and in particular, to explore opportunities for collaboration by leveraging satellite communications broadband services through the NIGCOMSAT Communications Satellite.
 
NIGCOMSAT Ltd owns and operates NigComSat-1R a communications satellite with four bands (Ka,ku C and L bands) capable of supporting voice, data, broadcasting, and direct to home services, as well as other smart solutions and applications.
 
Later in the day, the Kenyan delegation had an engagement forum with a number of Nigerian Startups and innovators in the Nigerian Space ecosystem, who also made presentations on their innovations and ideation of solutions to pressing socioeconomic challenges.
 
The DG KSA commended the innovators and startups for the brilliant and amazing innovation ideas they had presented,  which had served to demonstrate the talent pool of ideas and innovations on the Continent. He also commended NASRDA for creating an enabling environment for the growth of the Startup ecosystem in Nigeria. He added that KSA had similar objectives as NASRDA and was also focused on supporting the Space-related Startup and Innovation ecosystem in Kenya.
 
The DG KSA also announced that KSA would soon be establishing the African Business Innovation Lab through sponsorship from the European Space Agency (ESA) that would not only benefit Kenyan innovators and Startups but would also be open to innovators and startups from around the Continent. He further called for greater interaction and exchanges between startups and innovators from Kenya and Nigeria, adding that KSA had developed an online catalogue with a listing of all startups and innovators in the Kenya Space Ecosystem for ease of matchmaking with international partners and to facilitate collaboration.

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