NSE Awards Nigeria Sat-X Engineers

The 26 engineers who built the recently launched NigeriaSat-X have all received the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) chairman’s merit award.
The award, which was presented by the chairman of the NSE, Abuja chapter, Mr Olatunde Akinteye, was in recognition of the achievement of the engineers in the design and building of a training model satellite to flight standard and was launched alongside NigeriaSat-2.

Photo of a Nigerian Engineer working on Sat-X

The Director-General of National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Dr Seidu Mohammed, in his remark at the event, congratulated the 26 engineers for exhibiting great skills and excellence in making the nation proud.
He thanked the NSE for the gesture, saying that this was not only recognition and  appreciation shown to the engineers, but also to the agency as a whole.
Dr Mohammed said the work done by the engineers and scientists went to show that education in Nigeria was as good as anywhere else in the world, adding that despite challenges, Nigerians still performed well and even better, given better conditions elsewhere in the world.
The NASRDA helmsman said the nation’s venture in space was not an ego trip, but an opportunity to harness the immense benefit of space technology for the development of the nation, adding that no nation could boast of meaningful development without employing the tools of science and technology.

Source:  Nigerian Tribune