{"id":80549,"date":"2013-07-31T22:11:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/inec-to-use-satellite-technology-in-nigerias-electoral-review\/"},"modified":"2013-07-31T22:11:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:11:10","slug":"inec-to-use-satellite-technology-in-nigerias-electoral-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/inec-to-use-satellite-technology-in-nigerias-electoral-review\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC to Use Satellite Technology in Nigeria\u2019s Electoral Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: NASRDA, Nigeria, Government<br \/>\nPublication: Humanipo.com<br \/>\nPublication Date: 07\/31\/2013<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 150px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"6\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/100_1614.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<em>NASRDA\u2019s headquarters<\/em><br \/>\nImage credit: Photobucket.com user Markingersoll\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Nigeria\u2019s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)<\/b> will use satellite technology in its mission to review the country\u2019s electoral boundaries and constituencies. The review is purposed to bring about more equality in political representation, and to prevent mal-apportionments.<\/p>\n<p>Attahiru Jega, INEC chairman, asked the <b>Nigerian National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA)<\/b> to provide the commission with hard and soft copies of high-resolution images of the entire country. The commission is also after street maps of all of the territory. According to reports, NASRDA has the required quality facilities and support to take on the project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: NASRDA, Nigeria, Government Publication: Humanipo.com Publication Date: 07\/31\/2013 NASRDA\u2019s headquarters Image credit: Photobucket.com user Markingersoll Nigeria\u2019s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will use satellite technology in its mission to review the country\u2019s electoral boundaries and constituencies. The review is purposed to bring about more equality in political representation, and to prevent mal-apportionments. Attahiru Jega, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}