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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will transmit the results of the 2019 general elections electronically through the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT).

To this end, INEC has sought NIGCOMSAT’s help to use its Sat1-R satellite to electronically transmit the results immediately after counting at each polling unit across the country.

The Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this during a working visit to NIGCOMSAT headquarters in Abuja yesterday.

The INEC delegation, which was received by the Managing Director of NIGCOMSAT, Abimbola Alale, and other management staff of the agency, toured the agency’s facilities for about 15 minutes.

Prof. Yakubu, who said he was impressed with what he saw in the country’s satellite communication agency, stated that INEC was committed to deepening the deployment of technology in elections.

He added that through NIGCOMSAT’s satellite and connectivity provided by telecom operators, the results of elections of each of the 119, 973 polling units nationwide would be electronically transmitted on the spot and in real time, including the scanned images of result sheets.

Aside from this, the INEC chairman also said the commission wanted NIGCOMSAT to help in voter education through electronic message display as the 2019 elections drew nearer.

“It is for this reason that we wish to leverage on the capacity of NIGCOMSAT to provide a wide range of telecommunication services. In particular, your broadband service offers a tremendous flexible bandwidth capacity that can be deployed almost anywhere and in a short period of time, including hard-to-reach and temporary locations,” he said.

In her remarks, Ms. Alale said NIGCOMSAT was ready to partner with INEC in transmitting election results to every nook and cranny of Nigeria.

NIGCOMSAT’s Sat1-R, she said, was capable of covering and transmitting live and in real time all that transpired during the elections.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/inec-to-transmit-2019-elections-results-through-satellite.html

So a Federal institution has a Ms.Alale as the head?


Please who get her picture?


I dey find wife,abeg

If it can reduce rigging and let the daura man return to daura, there is no problem but I'm afraid that the results may be doctored by power that be and the admins before it will published to the whole world

Witches will intercept the results.

lawman88:
If it can reduce rigging and let the daura man return to daura, there is no problem but I'm afraid that the results may be doctored by power that be and the admins before it will published to the whole world

No doctoring at this level nah. The polling unit results can be compared with what INEC publishes and trust me in this age of social media, any discrepancy shall be pointed out with immediate alacrity

Wayo don enter.

K

hahaha reinstalling my kali before 2019.

That is very commendable from INEC, no room for any coalition for rigging

It seems the INEC chairman is some how feeling what is happening in the country. Mr Cairman, i hope the plans you have for the masses is that of good, and not of evil sha

Nigerian satellites in space seem to be just wasting away.

JusticeSeeker:
No doctoring at this level nah. The polling unit results can be compared with what INEC publishes and trust me in this age of social media, any discrepancy shall be pointed out with immediate alacrity

This is commendable, elections in this country is always rigged at at ward and local govt, collation level
. if this level of collating results can be elininated then Nigeria is about to get it right

Will it stop underage voting in the north?

welcome development.......



even though i dont think this is new in Nigerian Election.....data capturing machine uses SAM Card and Sim to transmit before now!

I also wish the voting can be digitalize as people are voting.

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Good development... More agencies and institutions should engage NIGCOMSAT

This is good news,I hope they include it in the constitution,in rivers state 2015 the card reader recorded 250,000 accredited voters but 1.2 m was recorded for PDP,that means incidence form has about 1million.