As Nigeria confronts a deepening security emergency that has claimed thousands of lives, displaced millions and crippled economic activities across the North-West and North-Central regions, a powerful weapon sits largely idle in orbit: the country’s own satellites.
In the past two decades, Nigeria has invested more than $700 million (about N1.2 trillion at current rates) into communications and earth-observation satellites that experts say can be rapidly deployed to track bandits, intercept their communications, and provide secure, jam-proof
