{"id":242066,"date":"2026-08-24T20:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fg-engages-israeli-french-manufacturers-to-produce-two-next-generation-communication-satellites\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T20:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:12:15","slug":"nigeria-fg-engages-israeli-french-manufacturers-to-produce-two-next-generation-communication-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fg-engages-israeli-french-manufacturers-to-produce-two-next-generation-communication-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: FG Engages Israeli, French Manufacturers to Produce Two Next-Generation Communication Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, and the Nigeria Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Limited are engaging the Israeli and French manufacturers to produce two next-generation communication satellites for Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">NIGCOMSAT said in a statement yesterday that the satellites, NigComSat-2A and NigComSat-2B, will be delivered by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Thales Alenia Space of France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The company said the project has moved into its next phase following&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608240734.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, and the Nigeria Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Limited are engaging the Israeli and French manufacturers to produce two next-generation communication satellites for Nigeria. NIGCOMSAT said in a statement yesterday that the satellites, NigComSat-2A and NigComSat-2B, will be delivered by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Thales Alenia Space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":242067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6204,7406,410,2670,5237,257,37519,4687,393,14281,26526,254],"class_list":["post-242066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-communication","tag-engages","tag-french","tag-israeli","tag-manufacturers","tag-news","tag-nextgeneration","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-produce","tag-satellites","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}