Nigeria’s fight against insurgency is entering a phase where firepower alone may no longer be enough.
The country’s ability to win on the battlefield could increasingly depend on how soldiers can communicate securely, share intelligence quickly and keep their networks alive when terrestrial infrastructure fails.
That is putting satellite communications, artificial intelligence and resilient networks at the centre of Nigeria’s security challenge.
Jane Egerton-Idehen, managing director of NIGCOMSAT, in an exclusive interview with BusinessDay, said satellite technology has long supported Nigeria’s military operations, particularly in areas where conventional telecommunications infrastructure is unavailable.
The next challenge, however, is to build a communications system that can survive attacks, work across difficult terrain and automatically move between different technologies when one network fails.
