Courtesy Visit on CG, Immigration Muhammad Babandede on Tuesday, June 21, 2016.
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As part of its marketing outreach to potential customers, a team from NIGCOMSAT led by the Managing Director, Abimbola Alale, recently visited the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS). The visit also doubled as a courtesy call on the new Comptroller General of the Service, Muhammad Babandede.
While congratulating him of the appointment, the NIGCOMSAT boss said her Organization is not a stranger to the Immigration Service but deemed it necessary to again visit and brief the CG on NIGCOMSAT’s activities so that the two organizations can explore areas of collaboration. “So this is not just a courtesy call but a presentation of what NIGCOMSAT is, what it does as well as our strategic partners,” she said.
Making the presentation thus, the General Manager, Marketing, Engr. Shehu Kaura, informed that NIGCOMSAT wants to, among other services, provide the Nigerian Immigration Service broadband Internet access using any of the Ka, Ku and C-Band platforms. “We also want to create Wi-Fi Hotspots/access as well as use the Ka-Platform for network design. Kaura also stated that the benefits of working with NIGCOMSAT will enable the NIS to have a pool of capacity, access to a pool of bandwidth that can be shared among its different locations, managed services as well as access to 24/7 technical supports. He also informed the CG and his team that NIGCOMSAT can provide enabling ICT platform upon which the NIS can leverage to increase its geographical coverage. NIGCOMSAT also made a presentation on one of its spin-off products, the RFID-Staff Attendance and Access Control System (SAACS).
On his part, the CG, Babandede said that the presentation is an eye-opener. He requested NIGCOMSAT to give him a team of two persons to work with the NIS ICT department. He expressed his wish to see that certain data taken from LGs are properly collated stating that “It is a good thing that NIGCOMSAT came around to brief the NIS and we look forward to working together.”
